The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (TRIH ep 656, part 3)
1915 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan in the United States, a mass‑market, fraternal organization that flourished in the 1910s and 1920s. They trace its origins to Thomas Dixon’s novel The Leopard's Spot and its film adaptation The Birth of a Nation, which helped popularise Klan imagery.
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Around 1915
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)