Gideon Cohn-Postar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1194214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon Cohn-Postar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohn-Postar |
| SIGNATURE | COHN-POSTAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8036-5146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
That Infernal Race Prejudice
The life of George Wellington Bryant, a potentially corrupt minor officeholder and gifted orator whose public life began in Reconstruction and ended in the nadir of Black rights at the turn of the century, provides an exceptional window into Black men’s involvement in patronage politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. This article argues that patronage politics offered a real path for advancement for ambitious Black men like Bryant in t…
Vanguard
Reviewed by: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones Gideon Cohn-Postar (bio) Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. By Martha S. Jones. (New York: Basic Books, 2020. Pp. 352. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.99.) "Risk ran in many directions" for Black women who challenged American racism, sexism, and inequality in all its forms in the…
Congress and the First Civil Rights Era
"Congress and the First Civil Rights Era: 1861–1918." History: Reviews of New Books, 50(2), pp. 24–25
“Vote for your Bread and Butter”
The extent and intensity of electoral and voter fraud that took place during the U.S. Gilded Age is properly infamous. This paper explores a form of voter intimidation that has garnered comparatively little scholarly attention: economic coercion. Absent secrecy at the polls and security at work, bosses forced workingmen to choose between their job or their vote. Economic voter intimidation provoked both a real and rhetorical crisis in the 1870s a…
Between Freedom and Progress
David Prior’s Between Freedom and Progress presents a compelling argument that “Reconstruction’s partisans” (p. 12) employed examples and ideas drawn from outside the United States to buttress their competing political and racial claims. Political rhetoric from 1865 to 1874, Prior argues, was shaped by Americans’ conflicting beliefs that “freedom and progress defined history,” yet the world’s population was still comprised of “distinctive peoples…
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Between Freedom and Progress
David Prior’s Between Freedom and Progress presents a compelling argument that “Reconstruction’s partisans” (p. 12) employed examples and ideas drawn from outside the United States to buttress their competing political and racial claims. Political rhetoric from 1865 to 1874, Prior argues, was shaped by Americans’ conflicting beliefs that “freedom and progress defined history,” yet the world’s population was still comprised of “distinctive peoples…
“Vote for your Bread and Butter”
The extent and intensity of electoral and voter fraud that took place during the U.S. Gilded Age is properly infamous. This paper explores a form of voter intimidation that has garnered comparatively little scholarly attention: economic coercion. Absent secrecy at the polls and security at work, bosses forced workingmen to choose between their job or their vote. Economic voter intimidation provoked both a real and rhetorical crisis in the 1870s a…
Vanguard
Reviewed by: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones Gideon Cohn-Postar (bio) Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. By Martha S. Jones. (New York: Basic Books, 2020. Pp. 352. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.99.) "Risk ran in many directions" for Black women who challenged American racism, sexism, and inequality in all its forms in the…
Congress and the First Civil Rights Era
"Congress and the First Civil Rights Era: 1861–1918." History: Reviews of New Books, 50(2), pp. 24–25
That Infernal Race Prejudice
The life of George Wellington Bryant, a potentially corrupt minor officeholder and gifted orator whose public life began in Reconstruction and ended in the nadir of Black rights at the turn of the century, provides an exceptional window into Black men’s involvement in patronage politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. This article argues that patronage politics offered a real path for advancement for ambitious Black men like Bryant in t…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gilded Age (2 works)