In Development

Freedmen’s Education During Reconstruction (FEDR). With Breanna C. Gray, I am digitizing educational records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen’s Bureau), reporting the educational attainments of emancipated people in the Reconstruction-era American South, disaggregated by gender, subject, county, and month. We use these data to study how occupation forces shaped engagement with Freedmen’s Bureau schools and the political and economic legacies of Reconstruction-era education.