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Reunion and Reaction
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Comer Vann Woodward
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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First published in 1951, Reunion and Reaction quickly became a classic. Its entirely new interpretation was a revision of previous attitudes toward the Reconstr
Reunion and Reaction : The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus)
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-03-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern
The Reunion
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Simone van der Vlugt
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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'When I read back through my diaries, I come across completely unknown events, as if another person lived that time in my place. And still, a recollection can s
The Promise of the New South
Language: en
Pages: 592
Authors: Edward L. Ayers
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At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly list
Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: William Gillette
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-01-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

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According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasize idealistic motivations at t