The Ku Klux Klan: The Rise of Evil (TRIH eps 654-657)
1865–1921 · Resource
A four-part series on the Ku Klux Klan: the first Klan's origins in Tennessee in 1866 and its terror against Reconstruction, then the second Klan inspired by The Birth of a Nation and its mass following in the 1920s.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1865
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)