Radio War Nerd EP204 — Reconstruction As Dirty War

The War Nerd looks back at the period after the US Civil War known as "Reconstruction" as a form of warfare — a dirty war, with all the ingredients. Why is there so little historical grasp of the Reconstruction as another form of warfare? Why don't we even know the casualty figures — almost entirely freed African-Americans, killed by the South's dominant whites? A big shout-out to Michael Harriot for his thread on Reconstruction-as-warfare. Books cited: Henry Louis Gates, Stony the Road Eric Foner, Reconstruction Gen. John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier * * * Don't forget the new audiobook by the War Nerd's alter-ego John Dolan: "Pleasant Hell", the comic memoir read by the author himself. Buy it here! Total time: 2:22:24 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here