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Top 10 Brutal Realities Of The American Reconstruction


Top 10 Brutal Realities Of The American Reconstruction
The American Civil War is one of the most studied, dramatized, and reenacted events in world history. Much less covered is the period generally agreed by historians to have spanned from 1865 to 1877 known as the Reconstruction.The Civil War could easily be portrayed as a glorious campaign where the forces of good triumphed and in the process freed millions and preserved the union. It’s all very reassuring if not inspiring. Meanwhile the American Reconstruction is largely a matter of blunders. Blunders that cost countless Americans their lives and generations their livelihoods. Hard to feel inspired by that. ....

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A Key Book on BC's Black Pioneers is Back and Better, 42 Years Later


Author Crawford Kilian talks about revisiting, updating and republishing his ‘Go Do Some Great Thing.’
Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter @olapalooza.
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Mifflin Gibbs arrived in 1858 to become a successful retailer, real estate speculator, Victoria city councillor and builder of BC’s first railway. Crawford Kilian’s account of BC’s ‘remarkable’ Black pioneers remains foundational.
Kilian photo for The Tyee by Amy Romer.
“The climate is most beautiful; the strawberry vines and peach trees are in full blow… All the colored man wants here is ability and money. It is a God-sent land for the colored people.” Wellington Moses, a member of the Pioneer Committee quoted in Crawford Kilian’s book ....

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