Reconstruction beyond 150 : reassessing the new birth of freedom / edited by Orville Vernon Burton and J. Brent Morris.

Other author Burton, Orville Vernon, editor.
Other author Morris, J. Brent, editor.
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Descriptionx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
African Americans--Southern States. --Social conditions. --19th century.
United States--Race relations. --History. --19th century.

Variant title Reconstruction beyond one hundred fifty
Variant title Reconstruction beyond one fifty
SeriesA nation divided: studies in the Civil War era
Nation divided. ^A476341
Contents Reconstruction still matters / Eric Foner -- "They loved by did not agree": African American women divorcees in post-Civil War Virginia / Arlisha Norwood -- Reconstructing nationalism: Charles Sumner, human rights, and American exceptionalism / Mark Elliott -- Oliver P. Morton and the politics of reconstruction / A. James Fuller -- Building a new political order: reconstruction, capitalism, and the contest over the American state / Nicolas Barreyre -- Race, representation, and reconstruction: the origins and persistence of Black electoral power, 1865-1900 / Peter Wallenstein -- Lynching in the American imagination: a historiographical reexamination / Mari N. Crabtree -- "Magnificent resources": reconstruction in Indian territory / Troy D. Smith -- A new birth of freedom abroad / Don. H. Doyle -- Confederate reconstructions: generations of conflict / David Moltke-Hansen -- Reconstruction at the centennial exhibition of 1876 / Krista Kinslow -- Mark Twain and the failure of radical reconstruction / J. Mills Thornton -- Teaching DuBois's Black reconstruction / Garry Bertholf, Marina Bilbija -- Three historians and a theologian: Howard Thurman and the writing of African American history / Peter Eisenstadt -- Killing Calvin Crozier: honor, myth, and miltary occupation after Appomattox / Lawrence T. McDonnell.
Abstract "Marred by frequent violence and tragedy, the Reconstruction period was a revolutionary era that offered hope, opportunity, and against all odds, a new birth of freedom for all Americans. Even though many of the gains of Reconstruction were rolled back and replaced with a repressive social and legal regime for African Americans, the radical spark was never fully extinguished, and its spirit fanned back into flame with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This volume brings together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial period"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Reconstruction beyond 150. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023 9780813949871
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2023012263
ISBN9780813949864
ISBN9780813949857 hardcover
ISBN0813949858 hardcover
ISBN0813949866 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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