Ebook {Epub PDF} Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction by Elaine Frantz Parsons

Rethinking the Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan. In this complex and important monograph, historian Elaine Frantz Parsons presents the first major treatment of the post-Civil War Ku Klux Klan since the publication of White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction by Allen Trelease in With the collapse of slavery and the Confederacy at the end of the war, she writes, white . The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in , but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as Estimated Reading Time: 1 min. Social phenomena, however, are typically more complex than they appear on the surface, which makes Elaine Frantz Parsons’s new investigation of the Reconstruction-era Klan, Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction, a welcome addition to Klan scholarship. To a great extent, Parsons aims to offer a corrective to the scant and dated work that exists on the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.

Excerpt: Ku-Klux, by Elaine Frantz Parsons. The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku-Klux Klan since the s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in , but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. Nancy K. MacLean: Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Stanley Nelson: Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the s. Scott Reynolds Nelson: Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. Elaine Frantz Parsons: Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction. ARTICLES. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. Author. Elaine Frantz Parsons. Read More. Details. ISBN ISBN Publisher: University of North Carolina Press. Publish Date: 02/01/

Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. About the Author Elaine Frantz Parsons is professor of history at Kent State University. The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in , but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. Elaine Frantz (Parsons) is a historian of violence, gender and race in the long Nineteenth Century. She is working on two scholarly projects: one on the history of policing in Pittsburgh, and one on Women's Christian Temperance Union President Frances Willard. She recently published a book on the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War: Ku-Klux:The.