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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... reported a crime wave of ''rape, murder, suicide, theft, burglary, garroting, pocket picking, embezzlement, elopements, bigamy, adultery'' and insisted ''that a great moral reform must be begun, and at once, or the great social fabric ...
... reported a crime wave of ''rape, murder, suicide, theft, burglary, garroting, pocket picking, embezzlement, elopements, bigamy, adultery'' and insisted ''that a great moral reform must be begun, and at once, or the great social fabric ...
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... blamed the aristocratic planters from the low country for precipitating the war and by 1865 hated them accordingly. A northern man traveling in the South in fall 1865 reported the recent The View from the Civil War ∞Ω.
... blamed the aristocratic planters from the low country for precipitating the war and by 1865 hated them accordingly. A northern man traveling in the South in fall 1865 reported the recent The View from the Civil War ∞Ω.
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... reported the recent murders of two Rebels by pro-Union southerners and the conviction of local leaders that ''ex-Rebel soldiers, those who were in any sense leaders, will fare hard at the hands of the mountain Unionists.''≤∫ At the ...
... reported the recent murders of two Rebels by pro-Union southerners and the conviction of local leaders that ''ex-Rebel soldiers, those who were in any sense leaders, will fare hard at the hands of the mountain Unionists.''≤∫ At the ...
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... reported that ''78,000 [New Yorkers] live in damp, dark, dreary cellars, often under water, close to the most loathsome sinks, overcrowded, and reeking with filth and mortal disease. There is never sound health in them, and the sickness ...
... reported that ''78,000 [New Yorkers] live in damp, dark, dreary cellars, often under water, close to the most loathsome sinks, overcrowded, and reeking with filth and mortal disease. There is never sound health in them, and the sickness ...
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... reported that the tobacco market was strong, and a new national bank opened in Savannah. In January 1866, the newly resumed De Bow's Review noted that the reopening of the New Orleans School of Medicine was ''evidence of the return of ...
... reported that the tobacco market was strong, and a new national bank opened in Savannah. In January 1866, the newly resumed De Bow's Review noted that the reopening of the New Orleans School of Medicine was ''evidence of the return of ...
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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