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Apr 18, 2024 · Battle of New Orleans. Vicksburg Campaign. David Farragut (born July 5, 1801, near Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1870, Portsmouth, N.H.) was a U.S. admiral who achieved fame for his outstanding Union naval victories during the American Civil War (1861–65). Farragut was befriended as a youth in New Orleans by Captain (later Commodore ...
Feb 1, 2023 · 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee directed this documentary about the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls. Unlike many documentaries that cover this event, this one dives ...
Mar 8, 2018 · One of the statues removed was of Gen. P.G.T Beauregard, who ordered the first shots fired in the Civil War, another was a bronze figure of Confederate hero Gen. Robert E. Lee that stood for 133 ...
Apr 9, 2019 · An African American family is posed for a portrait in a circa-1899 or 1900 photo, among those compiled by W.E.B. DuBois, included in the PBS documentary, "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War."
Apr 20, 2023 · Yet it was New Orleans, the least Confederate of Southern cities in 1861, and the least damaged by Union armies, that became a vortex of Southern nationalism after the Civil War. During the years of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, the memory and bitterness of Federal occupation became part of the cultural lore of the city.
Dec 23, 2021 · While politicians battled over the reconstruction of post-Civil War America, some southerners took matters into their own hands, with racial violence erupting. In 1866, the Memphis Race Riots left 46 African Americans dead in Tennessee, with hundreds of black houses, schools and churches destroyed. In July, a white mob in New Orleans, Louisiana ...
Jul 30, 2018 · With RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t.), Gates continues a tradition of producing sophisticated documentary films about the African and African-American experience for a broad ...
