Looks at the contest to construct history, focusing on competing versions of Reconstruction history supported by different factions after the Civil War. The aut

During Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1871, the people of Georgia were faced with rebuilding their state, which had been torn apart during the American Civil

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilian

From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War

The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction--its