First Birthday of the Reconstruction Era Blog

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On June 10, The Reconstruction Era Blog celebrates its First Birthday. When I started this new blog I wondered if there would be enough interest in the period to sustain it. So far visitation has greatly exceeded my expectations.

I have been particularly gratified by the large number of international visitors to the site. We have had visitors from 137 countries on all six inhabited continents. Here are the Top Ten:

1. US
2. Ireland
3. UK
4. ,Canada
5. Australia
6. Germany
7. France
8. India
9. Spain
10. Philippines

As you can see from the map below, where the few countries from which we have had no visitors are colored gray, the site has had visits from all parts of the globe.

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Happy birthday, Pat! That's impressive - it is a little surprising how many other nations are interested in Reconstruction. For us, it's almost an after-thought and it certainly shouldn't be. Very critical to who we are now and what we're currently dealing with.
 

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Happy birthday, Pat! That's impressive - it is a little surprising how many other nations are interested in Reconstruction. For us, it's almost an after-thought and it certainly shouldn't be. Very critical to who we are now and what we're currently dealing with.
Thanks Diane. Nice to see you.
 

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Happy Birthday Pat! I can't tell you how much I appreciate your blog and all the work you do in general.

I often share your blog/website with friends and other history enthusiast -- and I will continue too.

Wishing you much more success, recognition and traffic in the future!
 

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Congratulations. I really enjoy reading your posts!
 

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Happy Birthday Pat! I can't tell you how much I appreciate your blog and all the work you do in general.

I often share your blog/website with friends and other history enthusiast -- and I will continue too.

Wishing you much more success, recognition and traffic in the future!
Thanks, always happy when we get a chance to meet.
 

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Happy birthday, Pat! That's impressive - it is a little surprising how many other nations are interested in Reconstruction. For us, it's almost an after-thought and it certainly shouldn't be. Very critical to who we are now and what we're currently dealing with.
happy birthday, pat (i always thought you look like a one year old o_O)

@diane, why? what made america great in the 20th century was not having solved the problems after the civil war properly. if you did the us would certainly have been in no position to interfere in that european war we now call the first world war. for everybody else (aka non americans) reconstruction (or the lack of it) is far more important than that bar brawl of yours.

tapping ones own shoulder for two ammendments and returning to business as (nearly) usual didn't solve anything. it freed a lot of time for thinking beyond the horizon, though. that time alloted for solving interior problems would really have changed the world as we know it.
 

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happy birthday, pat (i always thought you look like a one year old o_O)

@diane, why? what made america great in the 20th century was not having solved the problems after the civil war properly. if you did the us would certainly have been in no position to interfere in that european war we now call the first world war. for everybody else (aka non americans) reconstruction (or the lack of it) is far more important than that bar brawl of yours.

tapping ones own shoulder for two ammendments and returning to business as (nearly) usual didn't solve anything. it freed a lot of time for thinking beyond the horizon, though. that time alloted for solving interior problems would really have changed the world as we know it.
IMHO, the war was fought to unite the union and end slavery-a threat to the union. Period. The Reconstructions amendments were intended to prevent another Civil War and they did.

Anything else is speculation.
 

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happy birthday, pat (i always thought you look like a one year old o_O)

@diane, why? what made america great in the 20th century was not having solved the problems after the civil war properly. if you did the us would certainly have been in no position to interfere in that european war we now call the first world war. for everybody else (aka non americans) reconstruction (or the lack of it) is far more important than that bar brawl of yours.

tapping ones own shoulder for two ammendments and returning to business as (nearly) usual didn't solve anything. it freed a lot of time for thinking beyond the horizon, though. that time alloted for solving interior problems would really have changed the world as we know it.
I think there's another layer to that as well - our isolationism. That and fear of immigrants added to the unresolved problems left after the CW. And, race was not particularly on the nation's mind. Still tended to relegate 'internal' matters such as that to the states - which is why the South lost the fight but won the war. During and after Reconstruction, things were arranged in many Southern states to punish blacks for thinking they could be free - see? Weren't you better off as a slave? Still that mind bending habit.

You've got a point, though. Deliberately not resolving the issues of race in the South and ignoring the results of conquest in the West while the Constitution was revised in ways the Founders might have frowned upon and becoming a sudden worldwide industrial power was more than a little unsettling. It wasn't until WWII that Main St America realized the world was out there and there were some serious unresolved problems at home - quite a reflection. Until the arrival of the automobile and TV, many Americans honestly didn't know what was happening in various regions of a large country - which is what the Civil Rights Movement brought home. Television! A great tool to show the truth at that time. "The whole world's watching!" By golly...they were! A lot of Americans felt like a bucket of ice water just got thrown in their faces, and so came upheaval in the 60s sparked by the murder of a popular president and a foreign war we didn't want. Don't think we've ever gotten over that, as a matter of fact. The 1960s are really directly connected to the 1860s.
 

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With the birthday of the Reconstruction Blog coming up this week I am looking back at the stats on visitors. After a year, people from all 50 states and the District of Columbia have stopped by. I was surprised by the state that the most visitors came from: Illinois. In the past, on other platforms, my biggest readership was from New York. For the new blog, New York comes in after Illinois and California.

The numbers are the number of "unique visitors." No matter how many times someone visits the site, they still count as just one unique visitor.recon blog states.JPG
 

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My #1 Article Over the Last Year: My top article was viewed 13,610 times and it was about the essay by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott in which she endorsed "No Irish Need Apply." Disturbing bigotry from a beloved author.
 
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