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Freedoms gained and lost : Reconstruction and its meanings 150 years later /
"Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln's promise of a "new birth of freedom" in the years following the Civi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Reconstructing America (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Whom Is Reconstruction For?
- Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama
- Reconstruction Justice: African American Police Officers in Charleston and New Orleans
- 1874: Self-Defense and Racial Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt
- "They Mustered a Whole Company of Kuklux as Militia": State Violence and Black Freedoms in Kentucky's Readjustment
- A Woman of "Weak Mind": Gender, Race, and Mental Competency in the Reconstruction Era
- Idealism versus Material Realities: Economic Woes for Northern African American Families
- "Works Meet for Repentance": Congressional Amnesty and Reconstructed Rebels
- Toward an International History of Reconstruction
- The Dream of a Rural Democracy: US Reconstruction and Abolitionist Propaganda in Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1890
- Lessons from "Redemption": Memories of Reconstruction Violence in Colonial Policy
- Remembering War, Constructing Race Pride, Promoting Uplift: Joseph T. Wilson and the Black Politics of Reconstruction and Retreat
- Fact, Fancy, and Nat Fuller's Feast in 1865 and 2015
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Series List