Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasize idealistic motivations at the expense of assessing concrete achievements of the era. Thus, he maintains, the failure of both the purpose and the promise of Reconstruction has not been deeply enough analyzed. |
Contents
1 Reveille for Reconstruction 18671870 | 11 |
Enforcing the Right to Vote | 25 |
The Presidential Campaign of 1872 | 56 |
Grants Early Southern Policy in Five States | 76 |
Intervention in Louisiana | 104 |
Politics or War? The Federal Response to Arkansas and Mississippi | 136 |
Grants Southern Policy and Performance | 166 |
Equality After 1872 | 186 |
Civil Rights and Counterrevolution | 211 |
The Force Bill in Congress and Election | 280 |
Patriotic Fervor and Presidential Politics | 300 |
Hayess Southern Policy | 335 |
15 Reconstruction in Retrospect | 363 |
Notes | 381 |
Common terms and phrases
References to this book
Long Memory: The Black Experience in America Mary Frances Berry,John W. Blassingame No preview available - 1982 |