The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798869044389)

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt addressed the American Historical Association to call for American history to be written as compelling stories of literary quality. Editor Allen Johnson of Yale University responded by publishing the Chronicles of America series: 50 succinct volumes on regional and thematic American history. These books, intended for secondary schools and college students, are expository works of American history composed by competent historians in the 1920's, well before the special pleading and upending of social norms typical of histories after 1970. This series is focused on the mainstream of American political life and leadership from its initial volumes on Native Americans and European colonists to its final volumes on Woodrow Wilson, Canada, and the Hispanic Republics to our South.

This volume on Reconstruction is from Walter Fleming, an early authority on the period. This comprehensive work considers the social, economic, and political tensions of the era, the conflicts among the dominant Republicans about the readmission and control of the former Confederate states, the long ordeal of martial law, and the dependence that endured after slavery. Fleming's volume is the best brief survey of this confused time. Included in this volume is an appendix of primary sources concerning the beginning of Reconstruction. These observations of travelers, journalists, diarists, and leaders gives valuable insight into the conditions of civilians, the labor and racial conflicts, and the development of Constitutional questions after the War.

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