BOOKS by Professor Heather Cox Richardson

West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War more books like this

by Professor Heather Cox Richardson

The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that could become a world power. Ultimately, the story of ...

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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 more books like this

by Professor Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson examines such issues as black suffrage, disenfranchisement, taxation, westward migration, lynching, and civil rights to detect the trajectory of Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class ...

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The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War more books like this

by Professor Heather Cox Richardson

While fighting a war for the Union, the Republican party attempted to construct the world's most powerful and most socially advanced nation. Rejecting the common assumption that wartime domestic legislation was a series of piecemeal reactions to wartime necessities, Heather Cox Richardson argues that party members systematically engineered ...

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