Interpreting American History Reconstruction

Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. “If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from aristo...

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Main Author Smith, John David
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published The Kent State University Press 2016
Kent State University Press
SeriesInterpreting American history series
Subjects
Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States
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ISBN9781606352922
160635292X

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Half Title, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reconstruction Historiography: An Overview 2. Presidential Reconstruction 3. Radical Reconstruction 4. Reconstruction: Emancipation and Race 5. Reconstruction: National Politics, 1865–1877 6. Reconstruction: Gender and Labor 7. Reconstruction: Intellectual Life and Historical Memory 8. Reconstruction: Transnational History Bibliography Contributors Index