West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil WarYale University Press, 2007 M03 28 - 416 pages “This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly). The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a national identity that united three very different regions into a country that could become a world power. A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book tracks the formation of the American middle class while stretching the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South. By weaving together the experiences of real individuals who left records in their own words—from ordinary Americans such as a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer, to prominent historical figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America. |
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... called him—sat in the White House, directing an activist government that served a peculiarly American middle class. The pages that follow try to show what the nation looked like to nineteenth-century Americans. In order to do that, I ...
... called him—sat in the White House, directing an activist government that served a peculiarly American middle class. The pages that follow try to show what the nation looked like to nineteenth-century Americans. In order to do that, I ...
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... called for government action to level the American economic, social, or political playing field. If a group as a whole came to be perceived as looking for government handouts its members were aggressively prohibited from participating ...
... called for government action to level the American economic, social, or political playing field. If a group as a whole came to be perceived as looking for government handouts its members were aggressively prohibited from participating ...
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... called by some people 'rifle whiskey,' and will kill at a thousand yards distance.'' The editors of the Atlanta New Era reported a crime wave of ''rape, murder, suicide, theft, burglary, garroting, pocket picking, embezzlement ...
... called by some people 'rifle whiskey,' and will kill at a thousand yards distance.'' The editors of the Atlanta New Era reported a crime wave of ''rape, murder, suicide, theft, burglary, garroting, pocket picking, embezzlement ...
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... called all white men equal. Poorer southerners had never been happy converts to secession, and their weak Confederate sentiments had disappeared entirely as the war dragged on. It was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight, they ...
... called all white men equal. Poorer southerners had never been happy converts to secession, and their weak Confederate sentiments had disappeared entirely as the war dragged on. It was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight, they ...
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... called poverty here would, in many cases, hardly be called poverty in London or Paris. There are scarcely any hopelessly poor here. It is generally thought here that nobody need be poor.'''≥≤ The North to which Schurz came was largely ...
... called poverty here would, in many cases, hardly be called poverty in London or Paris. There are scarcely any hopelessly poor here. It is generally thought here that nobody need be poor.'''≥≤ The North to which Schurz came was largely ...
Contents
A New Middle Ground | |
Years of Unrest | |
Years of Consolidation | |
The Struggle Renewed | |
The Final Contest | |
Reunion | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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