Reconstructing America
Edited by Andrew L. Slap, East Tennessee State University
The Reconstructing America series explores the many different ways the United States reconstructed itself as a nation and society after the Civil War. The series provides new perspectives on the traditional understanding of Reconstruction as a contemporary event from 1865 to 1877, such as the political, military, and constitutional issues in the immediate postwar years. The series also explores the new scholarly understanding of Reconstruction as a larger historical process, expanding the geographical, chronological, and historical scope of the period beyond the South and into the late nineteenth century. Such works deal with the broad social, cultural, gender, racial, intellectual, economic, environmental, military, international, and religious aspects of a country and people trying to reconstruct themselves. Bringing together innovative examinations of Reconstruction as a contemporary event with broad studies elaborating upon the process of Reconstruction is central to this series.
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A New Birth of Freedom (Hardcover)
The Republican Party and the Freedmen's Rights Herman BelzPrice: $60.00A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen’s Rights, 1861–1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country’s African American population were adopted during the...
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Emma Spaulding Bryant (Paperback)
Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860–1900 Edited by Ruth Douglas CurriePrice: $28.00Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, wooed by the ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican carpetbagger intent on reforming the...
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Preserving the Constitution (Hardcover)
Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era Michael Les BenedictPrice: $85.00“Americans’ ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects for its success. Americans were as...
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Preserving the Constitution (Paperback)
Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era Michael Les BenedictPrice: $30.00“Americans’ ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects for its success. Americans were as...
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The Doom of Reconstruction (Hardcover)
The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era Andrew L. SlapPrice: $75.00In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues
forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party...
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