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Robert D. Bland

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Remembering Reconstruction’s Lost Generation

Memorializing Benjamin Franklin Randolph and the Reconstruction generation.

by Robert D. Bland via Muster on January 7, 2026
'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
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

Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Low Country's Lost Political Generation

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