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24 sty 2008 · Budiansky's "The Bloody Shirt" is a fascinating, yet heartbreaking book about the decade or so after the Civil War where Southern whites made use of extensive tactics to pushback and overturn there Reconstruction efforts imposed by the Union after the Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
1 maj 2018 · The Bloody Shirt weaves together the experiences of a few men—two Union officers, a former slave, a northern entrepreneur and an ex-Confederate general—who “risked everything to try to build a new society of equality and justice” during the term of Republican rule in the South, only to be defeated in their efforts by a campaign of ...
30 gru 2008 · The Bloody Shirt sheds new light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American history.
30 gru 2008 · This book helps clarify the upsurge of terrorism from Palestinians to the civil war in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the U.S., the Northern attitude was, "Can't we all get along?" Southerners defiantly asserted, "Yes, as long as THOSE people stay in their place".
The Bloody Shirt sheds new light on the violence, racism, division, and heroism of Reconstruction, a largely forgotten but epochal chapter in American history.
30 sty 2008 · The title of this book refers to a small footnote to the brutal war of terrorist violence that was waged in the American South in the years immediately following the Civil War.
Stephen Budiansky's The Bloody Shirt reminded me of why I find the trade press and the whims of media attention to historical works frustrating. Budiansky's is the study of violence committed against African Americans and their white allies in the years following the Civil War.
