By Steven Tramel Gaines “It was a deliberate act of concealment.” Dr. Susan O’Donovan of the Department of History said those words about “the silence that continues to surround Reconstruction and which dampens public understanding of what was arguably one of the most foundational periods in national history.” O’Donovan delivered a lecture, as part of the […]
Continue reading →Below are the tweets from Drs. Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan’s discussion on Leonard Pitt’s novel Freeman. To listen to the discussion here. [View the story “Discussion on Leonard Pitts’ Freeman” on Storify]
Continue reading →by Susan O’Donovan The racial violence that swept Memphis in early May 1866 was no accident. Indeed, very little happens in a vacuum: not wars, not revolutions, not even the sinking of the Titanic. Histories, it turns out, have their own histories, and one of the historian’s tasks is to figure out why things happened. […]
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