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Robert D. Bland

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'Home Builders': Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Civil War Commemorations

On the gendered dimensions of trans-Mississippi Civil War memory, the idea of the single-family household, and the politics of expansion and settlement.

by Robert D. Bland, Lindsey R. Peterson via Muster on April 23, 2025

Lithograph depicting police attacking African Americans in New Orleans, 1874

On Riots and Resistance

Exploring freedpeople’s struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction.

by Robert D. Bland via Muster on August 11, 2020

An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

by Robert D. Bland via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 10, 2019

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