“Nooses,” the penultimate chapter of the upcoming book Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, is a bird’s-eye view of the years between President Lincoln’s death—150 years ago today—and the end of Reconstruction.
Ari Kelman is the McCabe Greer Professor of the Civil War Era at Penn State University. Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is an author and illustrator. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Their book, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, will be published in May. You can pre-order it here.
A case can be made that the Union should have been more decisive in persecuting Confederate war crimes, in order to quell the appetite for Reconstruction.
“Prosecuting”?
It’s good to reminded periodically how odious the post-Civil War Democratic party was. It’s ironic that they and the Republicans have shifted 180 degrees on each other.
Yep. Amazes me that there are streets named after confederate generals, statues honoring them as heroes - heck even a friggin Mt Rushmore of them. Ridiculous. There should have been a truth and reconciliation commission.
Thanks for this article. This period has been glorified, valorized and whitewashed ad nauseam , mostly by grievance mongers & Southern revanchists. It is long past time these lies are exposed.