Showing posts with label Reconstruction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reconstruction. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2025

A review of PBS’s “The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”

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“Don’t know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal – you sockdologizing old man-trap!...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Andrew Johnson: The man who botched Reconstruction

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An anecdote about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth … On April 14th, 1865,  President   Abraham Lincoln  was  assass...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Rutherford B. Hayes: Entering office by a margin of one electoral vote

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Reconstruction had been going on for twelve years, when Mr. Hayes became president When the Civil War ended in 1865, it was followed by ano...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

The Fourteenth Amendment is something of a mixed bag …

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It might seem strange to say it today, but the “Bill of Rights” amendments were once understood to apply only to the federal government, ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

A review of PBS's “Transcontinental Railroad” movie

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To establish post-offices and post-roads ..." - The United States Constitution, Article 1, S...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

A review of “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War”

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"The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounti...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

A review of “Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior President”

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"The war between the States was a very bloody and a very costly war. One side or the other had to yield principles they deemed dearer...