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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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 hi...storians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans — black and white — responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period — an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States. "...a masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history."--New Republic
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
W.e.b. Du Bois ; With An Introduction By David Levering Lewis. Originally Published Under Title: Black Reconstruction. New York : Harcourt, Brace, C1935. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 731-73...7) And Index.
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Chronicles America's Post-civil War Struggle For Racial Equality And The Violent Counterrevolution That Resubjugated Black Americans Throughout The Twentieth Century, As Seen Through The Visual Cultur...e Of The Era. Antislavery/antislave Backlash : The White Resistance To Black Reconstruction -- The Old Negro : Race, Science, Literature, And The Birth Of Jim Crow -- Chains Of Being : The Black Body And The White Mind -- Framing Blackness : Sambo Art And The Visual Rhetoric Of White Supremacy -- The United States Of Race : Mass-producing Stereotypes And Fear -- The New Negro : Redeeming The Race From The Redeemers -- Reframing Race : A New Negro Enters The Frame -- Epilogue -- Reconstruction Redux : The Caricature Assassination Of The First Black President. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 265-279) And Index.
A Short History of Reconstruction
An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Tim...es Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.BooknewsAn abridged version of the multiple award-winning Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution (1988). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
During Reconstruction Northerners Attempted To Remake The United States In Their Own Image. They Would Make Incarnate The New World Republicans Imagined At The End Of The Civil War. That New World See...med Possible Because The Republican Party Controlled The Union In 1865 As Fully As Any Political Party Would Ever Control The Country. Reconstruction Would Produce A Nation Built Around Free Labor With A Homogeneous Citizenry Whose Rights Would Be Guaranteed By A Newly Empowered Federal Government. Black As Well As White Citizens Would Inhabit A Largely Protestant Country Of Independent Producers. They Never Realized That Dream. The Government's Attempts To Implement This Vision Confronted Significant Obstacles. Southern Whites Successfully Resisted, And Indians Resisted With Far Less Success. Freed People Both Grasped The Opportunities That The Republican Vision Offered Them And Attempted To Articulate Their Own Version Of Republican America. The United States Became A Nation Of Immigrants, Catholic And Jewish As Well As Protestant. New Technologies Transformed The Economy, As Americans Significantly Shifted Into Wage Workers Instead Of Independent Producers. Capitalism Produced The Very Rich And The Very Poor. The Gilded Age Thrived Where Reconstruction Failed, The Template Of American Modernity. The Era Was Full Of Paradoxes. Notoriously Corrupt, It Also Formed A Seedbed Of Reform. It Spawned Racial, Religious, And Social Conflicts As Deep As The Country Had Seen To Date, But A Newly Diverse Nation Emerged. The Newest Volume In The Acclaimed Oxford History Of The United States Series, The Republic For Which It Stands Offers A Magisterial Account Of The Gilded Age's Real Legacy That Lies Buried Beneath Its Capitalists Of Legend And Its Corrupt Politicians.--provided By Publisher. Part I: Reconstructing The Nation -- Prologue: Mourning Lincoln -- In The Wake Of The War -- Radical Reconstruction -- The Greater Reconstruction -- Home -- Gilded Liberals -- Triumph Of Wage Labor -- Panic -- Beginning A Second Century -- Part Ii: The Quest For Prosperity -- Years Of Violence -- The Party Of Prosperity -- People In Motion -- Liberal Orthodoxy And Radical Opinions -- Dying For Progress -- The Great Upheaval -- Reform -- Westward The Course Of Reform -- The Center Fails To Hold -- The Poetry Of A Pound Of Steel -- Part Iii: The Crisis Arrives -- The Other Half -- Dystopian And Utopian America -- The Great Depression -- Things Fall Apart -- An Era Ends -- Conclusion. Richard White. Includes Bibliographical Essay (pages 873-901) And Index.
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War-a necessary reconsider...ation that emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America.In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all.Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, he places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and-even more actively-in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. Foner makes clear how, by war's end, freed slaves in the South built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment.He shows us that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war. He refutes lingering misconceptions about Reconstruction, including the attribution of its ills to corrupt African American politicians and "carpetbaggers," and connects it to the movements for civil rights and racial justice.Joshua Brown's illustrated commentary on the era's graphic art and photographs complements the narrative. He offers a unique portrait of how Americans envisioned their world and time.Forever Free is an essential contribution to our understanding of the events that fundamentally reshaped American life after the Civil War-a persuasive reading of history that transforms our sense of the era from a time of failure and despair to a threshold of hope and achievement.The Washington Post - Heather Cox RichardsonThe story recounted in Forever Free is heroic and beautifully told, but ultimately it is too simple for today's America. Foner offers a tutorial in racism and seeks to illuminate current debates over affirmative action and reparations by suggesting that racial equality cannot be realized until entrenched white racism is addressed. But the events of the Reconstruction period illuminate a larger national struggle over who should have a say in government when voting determines how tax dollars are spent. That 19th-century demands for tax reform blossomed into festive 20th-century gatherings where black people were lynched seems a perilous lesson for today's Americans to ignore.
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event ...in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920
A History Of Pivotal Events In America Between The Civil War And World War I Offers Insight Into The Nation's Rise To Become A Twentieth-century Power, Citing The Contributions Of Influential Figures ...And Evaluating The Roles Played By Imperialists, Progressive Reformers, And Innovators. Dreaming Of Rebirth -- The Long Shadow Of Appomattox -- The Mysterious Power Of Money -- The Rising Significance Of Race -- The Country And The City -- Crisis And Regeneration -- Liberation And Limitation -- Empire As A Way Of Life -- Dying In Vain. Jackson Lears. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [391]-406) And Index.
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
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