After the Civil War ended in 1865, the Confederate states emerged from the ashes and rejoined the Union. This book tells the story of the South's difficult Reco

Traces the history of various minority groups in the United States during the latter part of the nineteenth century.

From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War

Stampp's classic work offers a revisionist explanation for the radical failure to achieve equality for blacks, and of the effect that Conservative rule had on t