Civil War And Reconstruction

Author : Paul D. Escott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807837269

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North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Paul D. Escott Pdf

Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the issue of secession, and changes in race and gender relations brought new controversy. Blacks fought for freedom, women sought greater independence, and their aspirations for change stimulated fierce resistance from more privileged groups. Republicans and Democrats fought over power during Reconstruction and for decades thereafter disagreed over the meaning of the war and Reconstruction. With contributions by well-known historians as well as talented younger scholars, this volume offers new insights into all the key issues of the Civil War era that played out in pronounced ways in the Tar Heel State. In nine essays composed specifically for this volume, contributors address themes such as ambivalent whites, freed blacks, the political establishment, racial hopes and fears, postwar ideology, and North Carolina women. These issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras were so powerful that they continue to agitate North Carolinians today. Contributors: David Brown, Manchester University Judkin Browning, Appalachian State University Laura F. Edwards, Duke University Paul D. Escott, Wake Forest University John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia Chandra Manning, Georgetown University Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia Steven E. Nash, University of Georgia Paul Yandle, West Virginia University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

Author : Robert Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499026

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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction by Robert Harrison Pdf

In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's freed population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting from large-scale African-American migration. It also sheds new light on the political processes that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and the onset of black disfranchisement.

Author : Bradley R. Clampitt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803278875

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The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory by Bradley R. Clampitt Pdf

In Indian Territory the Civil War is a story best told through shades of gray rather than black and white or heroes and villains. Since neutrality appeared virtually impossible, the vast majority of territory residents chose a side, doing so for myriad reasons and not necessarily out of affection for either the Union or the Confederacy. Indigenous residents found themselves fighting to protect their unusual dual status as communities distinct from the American citizenry yet legal wards of the federal government. The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory is a nuanced and authoritative examination of the layers of conflicts both on and off the Civil War battlefield. It examines the military front and the home front; the experiences of the Five Nations and those of the agency tribes in the western portion of the territory; the severe conflicts between Native Americans and the federal government and between Indian nations and their former slaves during and beyond the Reconstruction years; and the concept of memory as viewed through the lenses of Native American oral traditions and the modern evolution of public history. These carefully crafted essays by leading scholars such as Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Clarissa Confer, Richard B. McCaslin, Linda W. Reese, and F. Todd Smith will help teachers and students better understand the Civil War, Native American history, and Oklahoma history.

Author : Paul H. Bergeron
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572337947

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Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction by Paul H. Bergeron Pdf

Few figures in American political history are as reviled as Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States. Taking office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he clashed constantly with Congress during the tumultuous early years of Reconstruction. He opposed federally-mandated black suffrage and the Fourteenth Amendment and vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights bills. In this new book, Paul H. Bergeron, a respected Johnson scholar, brings a new perspective on this often vilified figure. Previous books have judged Johnson out of the context of his times or through a partisan lens. But this volume—based on Bergeron’s work as the editor of The Papers of Andrew Johnson—takes a more balanced approach to Johnson and his career. Admiring Johnson's unswerving devotion to the Union, Lincoln appointed him as military governor of Tennessee, a post, Bergeron argues, that enhanced Johnson's executive experience and his national stature. While governor, Johnson implemented the emancipation of slaves in the state and laid the foundation for a new civilian government. Bergeron also notes that Johnson developed a close connection with the president which eventually resulted in his vice-presidential candidacy. In many respects, therefore, Johnson's Civil War years served as preparation for his presidency. Bergeron moves beyond simplistic arguments based on Johnson’s racism to place his presidency within the politics of the day. Putting aside earlier analyses of the conflict between Johnson and the Republican Radicals as ideological disputes, Bergeron discusses these battles as a political power struggle. In doing so, he does not deny Johnson’s racism but provides a more nuanced and effective perspective on the issues as Johnson tried to pursue the “politics of the possible.” Bergeron interprets Johnson as a strong-willed, decisive, fearless, authoritarian leader in the tradition of Andrew Jackson. While never excusing Johnson’s inflexibility and extreme racism, Bergeron makes the case that, in proper context, Johnson can be seen at times as a surprisingly effective commander-in-chief—one whose approach to the problems of reestablishing the Union was defensible and consistent. With its fresh insight on the man and his times, Andrew Johnson’s Civil War and Reconstruction is indispensable reading for students and scholars of the U.S. presidency and the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Author : Prof. J. G. Randall,Prof. David Donald
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200272

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The Civil War and Reconstruction [Second Edition] by Prof. J. G. Randall,Prof. David Donald Pdf

This is a revised edition by David Herbert Donald of his former professor J. G. Randall’s book The Civil War and Reconstruction, which was originally published in 1937 and had long been regarded as “the standard work in its field”, serving as a useful basic Civil War reference tool for general readers and textbook for college classes. This Second Edition retains many of the original chapters, “such as those treating border-state problems, non-military developments during the war, intellectual tendencies, anti-war efforts, religious and educational movements, and propaganda methods [...] bearing evidence of Mr. Randall’s thoroughgoing exploration of the manuscripts and archives,” whilst it expands considerably on other original chapters, such as those relating to the Confederacy. Still other portions have been entirely recast or rewritten, such as the pre-war period chapters and Reconstruction chapters, reflecting factual updates since Randall’s original publication. A must-read for all Civil War students and scholars.

Author : Laura F. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107008793

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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Laura F. Edwards Pdf

This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.

Author : Avery Craven
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 9780226118949

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The Coming of the Civil War by Avery Craven Pdf

A stimulating and profound analysis of the factors which brought a nation into war with itself.

Author : James Garfield Randall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Reconstruction
ISBN : OCLC:1375969575

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The Civil War and Reconstruction by James Garfield Randall Pdf

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 155728735X

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The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

This groundbreaking study, first published in 1994, draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe Arkansas society before, during, and after the Civil War. While the Civil War devastated the state, this book shows how those who were powerful before the war reclaimed their dominance during Reconstruction. Most importantly, the white elite's postwar commitment to a cotton economy led them to set up a sharecropping system very much like slavery, in which workers had little control over their own labor. In arguing for both change and continuity, Moneyhon reconciles contemporary accounts of the war's effects while addressing ongoing debates within the historical literature.

Author : Michael Perman,Amy Murrell Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN : 0495908959

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Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction by Michael Perman,Amy Murrell Taylor Pdf

Designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, this best-selling title covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.

Author : J. C. Randall,James Garfield Randall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Reconstruction
ISBN : OCLC:928203916

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The Civil War and Reconstruction [by] J.G. Randall [and] David Donald by J. C. Randall,James Garfield Randall Pdf

Author : Olivia Muñoz-Rojas
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1845194365

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Ashes and Granite by Olivia Muñoz-Rojas Pdf

Examines the wartime destruction and post-war rebuilding of three prominent sites in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. This title reveals aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the evolution of the Franco regime from an original and fruitful angle.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393652581

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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights.

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158544362X

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Texas After The Civil War by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

Author : Tunde Adeleke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496826657

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Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction by Tunde Adeleke Pdf

Militant? Uncompromising? Pragmatic? Utilitarian? Accommodating? Conservative? To engage Martin Robison Delany (1812–1885) is to wrestle with almost all the complexities and paradoxes of nineteenth-century black leadership in one public intellectual. After his previous book on Delany, senior historian Tunde Adeleke has compiled here letters, speeches, contemporary nineteenth-century newspaper articles, and reports written by and about Delany. These vital primary sources cover his Civil War and Reconstruction career in South Carolina and include key critical reactions to Delany’s ideas and writings from his contemporaries. There are over ninety documents, the vast majority not previously published. Delany remains the subject of conflicting and confusing interpretations. Adeleke indicates that Delany actually manifested complex dispositions. He presaged manifestations of the strands of both protest and compromise that would define the early twentieth-century world of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. An African American abolitionist and journalist, Delany advocated for black nationalism, one of the first to do so. After working alongside Frederick Douglass to publish the North Star in the 1840s, Delany looked into establishing a settlement in West Africa. Yet during the Civil War, he served as the first African American field grade officer in the Union Army. Then he labored for the Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina. Delany even ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as a Republican and later defected to the Democrats. These documents will prove an indispensable call and response to an unparalleled intellectual life.