Showing posts with label Reconstruction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reconstruction. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Book on My Father's Bookshelf

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The book sat on a bookshelf in my parent’s bedroom for as long as I can remember. The shelf itself was a former window, occupied by an air c...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

What My History Books Left Out

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In early November, we visited friends and family in the New Orleans area. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, we found ourselves with some of our o...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Hidden, or Ignored, by History: "Afro-Creole Poetry" by Clint Bruce

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Historian Clint Bruce just taught me to look for what I don’t know in my own backyard. I’m a native of New Orleans, educated in New Orleans...
Monday, December 5, 2022

"Reconstruction in Mississippi" by James Wilford Garner

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James Wilford Garner   (1871-1938) was born and raised in Pike County, Mississippi, the same county where my paternal great-grandparents wer...
Monday, October 24, 2022

"Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi" by William C. Harris

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It’s barely mentioned in the standard school history textbooks, but the Southern states experienced two Reconstructions after the Civil War....
Monday, September 12, 2022

“War and Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1861-1875” by Charles Mills

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During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the U.S. government’s   Works Projects Administration   undertook a number of efforts to help the ...
Monday, May 15, 2017

“A Year in the South 1865” by Stephen Ash

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I found this book because I was interested in an ancestor. It’s not about my ancestor and contains no reference to him, but it gave me ...