/tags/reconstruction Reconstruction en-US Copyright Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:00:00 GMT /show/due-south/2025-02-11/matter-of-complexion-first-full-biography-nc-author-charles-chesnutt-reconstruction-writer-american-literature The name Charles W. Chesnutt may sound familiar, even if you don't know where to place it. It belongs to the first African American man to be published in The Atlantic Monthly and to break into the all-white American literary establishment. Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:00:00 GMT /show/due-south/2025-02-11/matter-of-complexion-first-full-biography-nc-author-charles-chesnutt-reconstruction-writer-american-literature Leoneda Inge, Cole del Charco /show/due-south/2024-02-27/how-white-supremacists-briefly-overthrew-louisianas-state-legislature-150-years-ago The start of the end of Reconstruction in the South happened during the 1874 election season. That’s what an author argues in a deeply-researched new book “Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War.” It includes the story of a Union General who helped stop a group of white men attempting to overthrow the fairly elected Louisiana state government when the new legislators were to be installed in January 1875. Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:05:21 GMT /show/due-south/2024-02-27/how-white-supremacists-briefly-overthrew-louisianas-state-legislature-150-years-ago Jeff Tiberii /race-demographics/2021-06-18/seeking-justice-juneteenth-commemorated-reenactment-warren-county In Warrenton, North Carolina, this Juneteenth is commemorated by a dramatic production. The community came together, not to tell the story of the end of slavery, but the end of Reconstruction, some 50 years later. Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:33:41 GMT /race-demographics/2021-06-18/seeking-justice-juneteenth-commemorated-reenactment-warren-county Leoneda Inge /arts-culture/2020-08-26/civil-war-and-southern-charm-how-hollywood-takes-on-the-south Some of the most popular films in our nation’s cinematic history are about the life, culture and customs of the American South. “Gone With the Wind” — the… Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:46:13 GMT /arts-culture/2020-08-26/civil-war-and-southern-charm-how-hollywood-takes-on-the-south Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio