The Politics and Memory of Reconstruction in Wilsonian Progressivism

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 6
Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
East Suite (Hilton New York)
Chair:
Elisabeth I. Perry, St. Louis University
Commentator:
Kathleen Clark, University of Georgia
Vindicating the Confederacy? The Reverend James H. McNeilly and Woodrow Wilson
Mark Benbow, Marymount University
Revolution in a Peaceful Guise: Reconstruction and Progressive Views of Radicalism
Jacob Kramer, Borough of Manhattan Community College
"I Have Plans that Are All Ruined": Black Politics, Federal Employment, and Reconstruction Memory in Progressive Politics
Eric S. Yellin, University of Richmond