Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags recounts events in post-Civil War Alabama, including political affairs and the attempts by the black population to carve out

Recounts the rise & fall of African Americans in Alabama politics during the Reconstruction; delves into their efforts to establish banks, labor unions, newspap

In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage creat

After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college student