emancipation celebrations, specifically in Louisiana, and maybe just New Orleans. Also maybe expanding the idea of an "emancipation celebration" and, in that context, considering the New Orleans Massacre of 1866, a massacre that began as an attack on a parade of freedmen, many of whom served in the Civil War.
(Louisiana OR "new orleans") AND emancipation AND celebrat*
(Louisiana OR "new orleans") AND "emancipation proclamation"
"new orleans" AND massacre AND 1866
The relationship between the KKK and the government during reconstruction (local, state, federal?)
klan AND ("state government" OR "local government" OR "federal government")
klan AND government AND reconstruction
Consider: use secondary sources to identify key figures, or states/towns where their influence was especially strong
The difference in medical treatment received by Black and white civil war veterans with visible disabilities during the war and after. Also medical institutions and the treatment of Black patients, for example mental institutions and the institutionalization of Black people. Interested generally in disability
Arlington VA during the CW – part of Virginia not controlled by the Confederacy.
development of Black Richmond, especially Jackson Ward, during Reconstruction.
textbooks and/or historical fiction portrayals of Civil War and Reconstruction, and effects on children in middle school.
periodization in historiography of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age.
comparing how slavery came to an end during the Civil War and during the Haitian Revolution.