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  • Far from being liberators, the Piedmontese administrators who came in the wake of the Risorgimento behaved like Yankees in the post-bellum Southern States; they ruled The Two Sicilies as an occupied country, systematically demolishing its institutions and industries.

    Garibaldi didn’t unite Italy « Isegoria 2008

  • However, in real life, hauntings, hexings and supernatural doings were as strange to the post-bellum South as pit barbecue, Winn-Dixie, Dr. Pepper and Royal Crown Cola were familiar.

    The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber 2008

  • Far from being liberators, the Piedmontese administrators who came in the wake of the Risorgimento behaved like Yankees in the post-bellum Southern States; they ruled The Two Sicilies as an occupied country, systematically demolishing its institutions and industries.

    April « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

  • I am reminded of the politics of the post-bellum era - in which average-to-below-average Republicans in the North could be elected by "waving the bloody shirt," i.e. referencing their seemingly prominent roles in the Civil War to win the support of Northerners.

    Republican party 2009

  • He looks at the history of Eliminationism in American history, from the American Indian from the beginning of European colonization, to post-bellum lynchings of African-Americans in the South, to the anti-Chinese exclusion acts and the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.

    Archive 2009-05-31 SeattleDan 2009

  • The statement can easily be interpreted as an implicit insult to the African-Americans who gave their lives to end the post-bellum era of racist terror that lasted well into the 1960s in parts of this nation. willyjsimmons wrote on January 11, 2008 11: 12 AM:

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Clyburn May Drop Neutral Stance To Punish Clintons 2009

  • "Just as post-bellum white southerners feared a black cultural revolution and thus acted in horrific, dehumanizing ways to squelch any inkling of Afro-cultural insurgency," he writes, "the cultural majority today fears specifically a Latino-cultural revolution which will rob them of their power to set the 'norm.'"

    The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Moving Immigration Reform Forward 2009

  • The unusual balancing act between chaos and domesticity represented in “War Spirit at Home” serves as a direct and poignant metaphor for the tenuous balance that the United States as a nation was struggling to achieve in the fractious post-bellum era, when Spencer completed this work.

    Unpacking Feminist Content in Lilly Martin Spencer’s “War Spirit at Home” « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • The statement can easily be interpreted as an implicit insult to the African-Americans who gave their lives to end the post-bellum era of racist terror that lasted well into the 1960s in parts of this nation.

    Clyburn May Drop Neutral Stance To Punish Clintons 2009

  • I am reminded of the politics of the post-bellum era - in which average-to-below-average Republicans in the North could be elected by "waving the bloody shirt," i.e. referencing their (seemingly) prominent roles in the Civil War to win the support of Northerners.

    Top Rudy Ally: First Responders Who Criticize Rudy Don't Understand That Terrorists Attacked Us On 9/11 2009

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