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Adam Hinojosa flips Texas Senate seat, becomes first Republican to represent Rio Grande Valley district since Reconstruction

Hinojosa won the only competitive seat in the Texas Senate this cycle, besting Sen. Morgan LaMantia two years after she narrowly defeated him.

The Texas Tribune

Based on Loose Reasoning, a Federal Judge Rejects a Challenge to the Gun-Free School Zones Act

The decision likens the federal law to Reconstruction era restrictions on firearms near polling places.

Reason

US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot

Twenty-five civil war and Reconstruction scholars support invoking 14th amendment to bar Trump from ballot over January 6

The Guardian - US

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Prosecutors are charging Trump using laws made to fight the KKK. Here’s why

After the civil war, Klansmen were prosecuted – and Confederate traitors forced from office – by the same laws Trump has now run afoul of

The Guardian - US

Today’s Republican Party has abandoned its roots

The party first turned its back on its values in 1876 by agreeing to dismantle Reconstruction. Ever since, power rather than principle has been its driving motive.

Chicago Sun-Times

Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

Historian Fergus Bordewich salutes the civil war general turned 18th president for his attempt to reconstruct the south

The Guardian - US

When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The shooter intended to start a race war and had posed with Confederate imagery in photos posted online.

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Mississippi Republicans guaranteed majorities in both state legislative chambers for first time since Reconstruction

The major party candidate filing deadline in Mississippi passed on Feb. 1, and, for the first time since Reconstruction, the number of Republicans running without Democratic opponents is large enough to guarantee Republican majorities in both legislative chambers.

Ballotpedia

Here's how to fix the Supreme Court

Historian David Gans on the lessons of Reconstruction, when Congress enforced reforms on a stubborn Supreme Court

Salon

Past is present in Peniel Joseph’s ‘The Third Reconstruction’

"The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century" by Peniel Joseph; Basic Books (288 pages, $27)

Tribune News Service

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

A case of fake history repeating itself: The American right told vicious lies about the Confederacy for decades

Salon

The Nation That Never Was review: a new American origin story, from the ashes of the old

Kermit Roosevelt III, descendant of Theodore, sees lessons for today’s divided nation in Reconstruction and the civil rights era

The Guardian - US

Commentary: Dobbs isn’t the first time the Supreme Court took away key rights

After the Dobbs decision ended federal protections for abortion, some high-profile responses suggested the ruling marked the first time the Supreme Court rescinded an established fundamental right.

Los Angeles Times

Poor People's Campaign rallies in Washington to mobilize low-income voters

A few thousand activists, advocacy groups, and religious leaders protested in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. They are calling for what they say is a Third Reconstruction.

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Commentary: ‘Reparations’ is another word for investing in America’s future

The new Juneteenth federal holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in our nation. That did not, however, emancipate Black people from the economic impact of their enslavement. Emancipation was followed by a failed Reconstruction, a century of Jim Crow, separate-but-(not)-equal, institutional racism and discrimination — the consequences of which…

Reason

Are We Always on the Verge of Civil War?

All that Civil War II talk is overblown—but that isn't the only sort of political violence to worry about.

Tribune News Service

Nedra Rhone: As battle wages over critical race theory, schools fail at teaching Reconstruction

As Georgia students gathered at the Capitol last Friday to protest legislation that would govern the way race is taught in schools, an interesting email hit my inbox.

Tribune News Service

Just what is a 'divisive concept'? Without real answers, educators are concerned about their implications on public education

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — When Conor Collins teaches his Advanced Placement U.S. History class, he asks students to think about some of the challenges Black people could have faced during Reconstruction after American enslavement was abolished.

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