2 Citations
Reconstruction Today: A Commentary
- History
- 2018
William Dunning has a great deal to answer for. He trained generations of historians to view Reconstruction as misguided: vengeful in its policies toward the Southern states and foolhardy in its…
References
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
- History
- 1988
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by…
Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia
- History
- 2000
Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America. This innovative book examines the…
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
- History
- 2003
A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. By Steven Hahn. (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 610.…
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
- History, Political Science
- 2015
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender…
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
- History
- 2009
1: Real People 2: Marks of Friendship 3: The Place of the Butterflies 4: "God Named This Land to Us" 5: Gold, Prophecy, and the Steal Treaty 6: "Conquering by Kindness" 7: "It Will Have to Be War!"…