Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807101389 ISBN 13: 9780807101384

Publisher: LSU Press, 1969

Synopsis

This anthology, which brings together some of the most important research and writing on Reconstruction during the past three decades, represents what historians today generally accept as an accurate portrait of the period. Twenty-three articles and book excerpts by the leading scholars in the field are grouped under five headings: “Lincoln, Johnson, and Reconstruction,” “The Radical Republicans,” “The Freedmen,” “Radical Reconstruction in the South,” and “The Collapse of Reconstruction.” The emphasis here is on recent scholarship in which many of the older concepts about Reconstruction have been challenged and brought back into clearer perspective, but some work dating back to the thirties by such scholars as W. E. B. Du Bois and Horace Mann Bond is also included. Other contributors include C. Vann Woodward, Richard N. Current, Eric L. McKitrick, LaWanda and John H. Cox, Stanley Coben, Howard Jay Graham, James M. McPherson, Willie Lee Rose, Joel Williamson, David Donald, Thomas B. Alexander, Allen W. Trelease, Louis R. Harlan, Vernon L. Wharton, Jack B. Scroggs, and W. R. Brock.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth M Stampp, Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, was the author of The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. He was awarded the Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement in 1993.

Leon Litwack, Morrison Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for History.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0807101389
• ISBN 13: 9780807101384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 532
• Editor: Stampp Kenneth M., Litwack Leon F.