Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in the wake of a traumatic civil war, including public education for all children,…
America's long road to Civil War -- And the war came -- All quiet along the Potomac -- The emergence of Grant -- McClellan's great campaign -- Confederate high tide -- Lincoln takes new measures -- "Peace does not appear so distant as it did"--"The unfinished work" -- From the R…
Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneously the reaction of southern white evangelicals, northern white evangelicals, and Christian freedpeople to Confederate defeat. As white southerners struggled to assure themselves that the collapse of the Confederacy was no…
Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneously the reaction of southern white evangelicals, northern white evangelicals, and Christian freedpeople to Confederate defeat. As white southerners struggled to assure themselves that the collapse of the Confederacy was no…
Both the North and the South viewed the Civil War in Christian terms. Each side believed that its fight was just, that God favored its cause. Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneously the reaction of southern white evangelicals, northern white evangelicals, an…
"The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents state by s…
"The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents state by s…
Although the Reconstruction of the Southern States in the wake of the Civil War got off to a promising start, it failed to deliver African Americans from disenfranchisement and discrimination. Valelly considers this failure & why the second 'reconstruction' of the mid 20th centu…
Winner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award of the Southern Pol…