The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900Univ of North Carolina Press, 1997 M09 1 - 257 pages The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimen |
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