There are 2 article(s) tagged Reconstruction:

• April 2024

  • Chucalissa’s link to slavery and Reconstruction resurfaces

    After the Native American inhabitants of Chucalissa left the mound settlement in the 1500s ahead of European explorers arriving in the area, the area became a large cotton plantation.

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    Orange Mound’s Reconstruction history comes into focus

    By Bill Dries April 29, 2024

• January 2021

  • Election questions this year recall 1876 dispute

    University of Memphis historian Beverly Bond says there are important differences between the contested presidential election of 1876 that ended Reconstruction and the contested 2020 election. But there are some broader connections between the reactions then and now.

    By Bill Dries January 24, 2021