Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centers of black political influence in the late nineteenth century—North Carolina’s second congressional d

Eric Anderson clarifies a confusing, uneven period of promise from the emancipation to the disfranchisement of black Americans. He examines regional and nationa

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

A history of North Carolina covers the social, economic, and political forces that shaped it.

Most historians agree that only a small share of southern blacks experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. Little attention has bee