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Reconstruction: A Timeline of the Post-Civil War Era For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nations newly freed Black population into society. Author: Recently freed African Americans receive rations. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nations newly freed Black population into society. Between 1863 and 1877, the U.S. government undertook the task of integrating n...

Brunswick Police Beat: Jan. 25-31 Share Arrests 1/25 at 9:39 p.m. Kristophor Hillgrove, 34, of Broadway, Rockland, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Joshua Bernier on charges of unlawful possession of a scheduled drug or drugs, violating condition of release and trafficking in prison contraband. 1/26 at 8:45 p.m. Justin Carman, 32, of Federal Street, was arrested on Federal Street by Officer Andrew Fitzpatrick on a warrant. 1/26 at 1:14 a.m. Dana Sherman, 53, of Pleasant Street, was ar...

Susannah Colt: Through the lens of the Johnson impeachment Published: 1/22/2021 6:00:06 AM At the House Rules Committee on Impeachment Resolution held on Jan. 13, Congressman Dan Bishop, Republican from North Carolina, discussed the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. He said, “Once before the House impeached the president within a week of the alleged offense – that was President Johnson days after he removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in 1868. Over 50 years later the Supr...

thomas mallen has a story to tell in, "watergate: a novel." sunday at 9, madeleine albright. booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> youre watching booktv. jonathan sarna recounts general ulysses s. grants order to expel the jewish population on december 17th, 1863. the order, quickly rebuked by abraham lincoln, would trouble grant into his 1869 presidential campaign. this is a little under an hour. >> well, thank you to rabbi angel for that remarkable introduction and praising. i have to s...

>> grants order was the most notorious official act of anti-semitism in american history. it is really the only time that jews as a class had been expelled from anywhere in the united states, and around 1982 new information concerning that order had become available from the association that published ulysses s. grants papers. and so it was that i began to prepare my remarks, and on the appointed day i put on a new suit, and my talk seemed to be going well until i broached the subject ...