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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... charged that Massachusetts abolitionists had ''wormed themselves and their plots into national a√airs . . . to incite the conflicts and fan the flames of passion,'' in order to gain control of the national government. Lincoln was a ...
... charged that Massachusetts abolitionists had ''wormed themselves and their plots into national a√airs . . . to incite the conflicts and fan the flames of passion,'' in order to gain control of the national government. Lincoln was a ...
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... charged with caring for a tribe by spending its government allotment on the tribe's behalf. Indian agents were supposed to use these federal monies to buy needed supplies for their charges, and they had unchallenged authority to ...
... charged with caring for a tribe by spending its government allotment on the tribe's behalf. Indian agents were supposed to use these federal monies to buy needed supplies for their charges, and they had unchallenged authority to ...
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... charged, that radical congressmen hoped to dominate government permanently. He vetoed both the new Freedmen's Bureau and the civil rights bills, deliberately depicting the reconstruction fight as a struggle between competing theories of ...
... charged, that radical congressmen hoped to dominate government permanently. He vetoed both the new Freedmen's Bureau and the civil rights bills, deliberately depicting the reconstruction fight as a struggle between competing theories of ...
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... charged the Judiciary Committee with determining whether to start impeachment proceedings against Johnson, who might not have broken laws but who had undoubtedly used his public o≈ce to harm the nation. (Among other things, on his 1866 ...
... charged the Judiciary Committee with determining whether to start impeachment proceedings against Johnson, who might not have broken laws but who had undoubtedly used his public o≈ce to harm the nation. (Among other things, on his 1866 ...
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... charged that government economic policies were serving businessmen. Economic conflicts occurred naturally in society, they argued in an echo of the rhetoric of labor organizers before the war, and it was government's responsibility to ...
... charged that government economic policies were serving businessmen. Economic conflicts occurred naturally in society, they argued in an echo of the rhetoric of labor organizers before the war, and it was government's responsibility to ...
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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