The author retraces New York City's rich political heritage, arguing that the city's political and social structures resisted Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War.
The author retraces New York City's rich political heritage, arguing that the city's political and social structures resisted Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War.
"The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save wartorn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has b…
Part I.A mere lapsus: Unionists and conservative dissidents during the Civil War -- The last relicks of barbarism: army, war, and reconstruction -- Presidential Reconstruction: Unionism and the politics of definition -- The premature New South of Governor Robert Patton -- Part I…
In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of…
