The Ordeal of the Reunion
A New History of Reconstruction
By Mark Wahlgren Summers
528 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 21 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-1757-2
Published: October 2014 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6407-1
Published: February 2021 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1758-9
Published: October 2014 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7024-7
Published: October 2014
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A 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Summers depicts not just a heroic, tragic moment with equal rights advanced and then betrayed but a time of achievement and consolidation, in which nationhood and emancipation were placed beyond repeal and the groundwork was laid for a stronger, if not better, America to come.
About the Author
Mark Wahlgren Summers is professor of history at the University of Kentucky and author of A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction.
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