A brief but insightful overview of nineteenth century immigration policy that provides important context for today's disputes. One important point I would add is that most Reconstruction-era statutes expanding freedoms applied to 'residents' or 'individuals,' not 'citizens.'

In today’s #Muster , Kevin Kenny explains how the federal government transformed immigration policy in the United States from a sub-national to a national policy for regulating the admission, exclusion, and removal of foreigners. Read more here: wp.me/p1ZRcM-18P.

Hey SCWH Members!
 
We have a looming deadline in the coming weeks we want to remind you of. 
 
The Anne J. Bailey Dissertation Prize Deadline is April 15. Information on submitting can be found at the link below:
 
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The March 2024 issue of Journal of CW Era is now available! Head over to #Muster to read the preview by editors Kate Masur and Greg Downs.

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Today’s #Muster previews the March 2024 Journal of CW Era issue. Please read the editors’ note and then the rest of the volume at your leisure. wp.me/p1ZRcM-18p

Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth R. Varon, whose book, 'Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South,' is a finalist in the Biography category of the LA Times Book Prize!

'Mr. president, it is my desire to be free...' During his time as president, many African Americans wrote to Abraham Lincoln. Recently, Fords Theatre staged a reading of some of their letters w/ historians Jonathan White & Edna Greene Medford. Watch, Sat at 9:30pm ET on CSPAN 2

Chad E. Pearson joins the Journal of the Civil War Era Journal of CW Era to talk about his book CAPITAL'S TERRORISTS: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

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#Muster has a new series of interviews between the Journal of CW Era book review editor and authors of works reviewed in the journal! The 1st features Chad E. Pearson & his book 'Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century.'

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In a new series, today’s #Muster features a recorded conversation with Chad E. Pearson on his book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (UNC, 2022). See the full conversation here: wp.me/p1ZRcM-18b

#OnThisDay in 1868, Mary Brown wanted to know the whereabouts of her two sons, Jerry and James Wilson. She notes they were separated from her two years before the Civil War.

#lastseenproject #BlackHistory #BlackGenealogy #CivilWarHistory NHPRC

Congratulations!

Today’s #Muster features an interview with Hidetaka Hirota who edited the December 2023 Journal of CW Era special issue on the transpacific connections in the Civil War era. Read the interview and then his amazing editor’s note for the special issue. See wp.me/p1ZRcM-17Z.

Big news!

Since August 2016, ✨500,000✨ pages of the Freedmen's Bureau records have been successfully transcribed on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, thanks to the incredible efforts of our 50,000 #volunpeers .

Explore the portal: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/freedm…

Stop by the UNC Press booth to check out the special issue on Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era in Journal of CW Era! #AHA24 Richards Center

Today’s #Muster features an interview with Tian Xu, who published an article in the December 2023 Journal of CW Era, titled “Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California.” Read the interview and then his amazing piece. See wp.me/p1ZRcM-17Y.

Today’s #Muster features an interview with Beth Lew-Williams, who published an article in the December 2023 Journal of CW Era, titled “Chinese Naturalization, Voting, and Other Impossible Acts.” Read the interview and then her amazing piece. See wp.me/p1ZRcM-17W.

Today’s #Muster features an interview with Stacey L. Smith, who published an article in the December 2023 Journal of CW Era, titled “The Colored American Asiatic Traveler”: Peter K. L. Cole and American Empire in Japan.” Read the interview here: wp.me/p1ZRcM-17P.

🚨Journal of Civil War Era special issue alert (13.4)🚨

Read for FREE: Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era edited by Hidetaka Hirota Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social👇
Journal of CW Era

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Congratulations to Tian Xu, PhD '21, on publication of his article 'Chinese Women and Habeas Corpus Hearings in California, 1857–1882'!

It appears in 'Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era,' a special issue of Journal of CW Era, from UNC Press

muse.jhu.edu/article/912399