Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction

Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction
Title Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction PDF eBook
Author Karl Mannheim
Publisher
Pages 504
Release 1940
Genre Civilization
ISBN

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The Republic for which it Stands

The Republic for which it Stands
Title The Republic for which it Stands PDF eBook
Author Richard White
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 964
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 0199735816

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The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction--its conflicts, rapid and disorienting change, hopes and fears--formed the template of American modernity.

The Death of Reconstruction

The Death of Reconstruction
Title The Death of Reconstruction PDF eBook
Author Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 331
Release 2009-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 0674042697

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Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth. Using newspapers, public speeches, popular tracts, Congressional reports, and private correspondence, Richardson traces the changing Northern attitudes toward African-Americans from the Republicans' idealized image of black workers in 1861 through the 1901 publication of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery. She 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 action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity. The Death of Reconstruction offers a new perspective on American race and labor and demonstrates the importance of class in the post-Civil War struggle to integrate African-Americans into a progressive and prospering nation.

Reconstruction

Reconstruction
Title Reconstruction PDF eBook
Author Eric Foner
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 742
Release 2011-12-13
Genre History
ISBN 006203586X

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From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America, with a new introduction from the author. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
Title A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] PDF eBook
Author Eric Foner
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 321
Release 2015-01-06
Genre History
ISBN 0062384074

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From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves’ searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and one committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Title The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution PDF eBook
Author Eric Foner
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 228
Release 2019-09-17
Genre History
ISBN 0393652580

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“Gripping and essential.”—Jesse Wegman, New York Times An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their virtual nullification by narrow Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws. Today these amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up.

Cause

Cause
Title Cause PDF eBook
Author Tonya Bolden
Publisher Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages 145
Release 2014-01-07
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0307792889

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After the destruction of the Civil War, the United States faced the immense challenge of rebuilding a ravaged South and incorporating millions of freed slaves into the life of the nation. On April 11, 1865, President Lincoln introduced his plan for reconstruction, warning that the coming years would be “fraught with great difficulty.” Three days later he was assassinated. The years to come witnessed a time of complex and controversial change.