No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial period.

Reconstruction was the most progressive period in United States history. Although marred by frequent violence and tragedy, it was a revolutionary era that offered hope, opportunity, and against all odds, a new birth of freedom for all Americans. Even though many of the gains of Reconstruction were rolled back and replaced with a repressive social and legal regime for African Americans, the radical spark was never fully extinguished. Its spirit fanned back into flame with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and its ramifications remain palpable to this day.

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Information

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Year

2023

ISBN

9780813949871

Topic

History

Subtopic

American Civil War History

Index

History

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
“They Loved but Did Not Agree”: African American Women Divorcees in Post–Civil War Virginia
Reconstructing Nationalism: Charles Sumner, Human Rights, and American Exceptionalism
Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of Reconstruction
Building a New Political Order: Reconstruction, Capitalism, and the Contest over the American State
Race, Representation, and Reconstruction: The Origins and Persistence of Black Electoral Power, 1865–1900
Lynching in the American Imagination: A Historiographical Reexamination
“Magnificent Resources”: Reconstruction in Indian Territory
A New Birth of Freedom Abroad
Confederate Reconstructions: Generations of Conflict
Reconstruction at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876
Mark Twain and the Failure of Radical Reconstruction
Teaching Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction
Three Historians and a Theologian: Howard Thurman and the Writing of African American History
Killing Calvin Crozier: Honor, Myth, and Military Occupation after Appomattox
Contributors
Index