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Author |
: Kathryn B. McKee |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2019-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807170526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807170526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Reconstruction by : Kathryn B. McKee
Kathryn B. McKee’s Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849–1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her fiction and nonfiction works. McKee reveals conflicts in Bonner’s writing as her newfound feminism clashes with her resurgent racism, two forces widely prevalent and persistently oppositional throughout the late nineteenth century. Reading Reconstruction begins by tracing the historical contexts that defined Bonner’s life in postwar Holly Springs. McKee explores how questions of race, gender, and national citizenship permeated Bonner’s social milieu and provided subject matter for her literary works. Examining Bonner’s writing across multiple genres, McKee finds that the author’s wry but dark humor satirizes the foibles and inconsistencies of southern culture. Bonner’s travel letters, first from Boston and then from the capitals of Europe, show her both embracing and performing her role as a southern woman, before coming to see herself as simply “American” when abroad. Like unto Like, the single novel she published in her lifetime, directly engages with Mississippi’s postbellum political life, especially its racial violence and the rise of Lost Cause ideology. Her two short story collections, including the raucously comic pieces in Dialect Tales and the more nostalgic Suwanee River Tales, indicate her consistent absorption in the debates of her time, as she ponders shifting definitions of citizenship, questions the evolving rhetoric of postwar reconciliation, and readily employs humor to disrupt conventional domestic scenarios and gender roles. In the end, Bonner’s writing offers a telling index of the paradoxes and irresolution of the period, advocating for a feminist reinterpretation of traditional gender hierarchies, but verging only reluctantly on the questions of racial equality that nonetheless unsettle her plots. By challenging traditional readings of postbellum southern literature, McKee offers a long-overdue reassessment of Sherwood Bonner’s place in American literary history.
Author |
: W. E. B. Du Bois |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 686 |
Release |
: 2013-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412846677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412846676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Reconstruction in America by : W. E. B. Du Bois
After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former slaves attempted to reconstruct the basis of American democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history, evaluates the twenty years of fateful history that followed the Civil War, with special reference to the efforts and experiences of African Americans. Du Bois’s words best indicate the broader parameters of his work: "the attitude of any person toward this book will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced." The plight of the white working class throughout the world is directly traceable to American slavery, on which modern commerce and industry was founded, Du Bois argues. Moreover, the resulting color caste was adopted, forwarded, and approved by white labor, and resulted in the subordination of colored labor throughout the world. As a result, the majority of the world’s laborers became part of a system of industry that destroyed democracy and led to World War I and the Great Depression. This book tells that story.
Author |
: Robert Charles Morris |
Publisher |
: Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226539288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226539287 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading, 'riting, and Reconstruction by : Robert Charles Morris
Author |
: Douglas R. Egerton |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 552 |
Release |
: 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608195749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608195740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wars of Reconstruction by : Douglas R. Egerton
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took a seat on the state's Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The brief years of Reconstruction marked the United States' most progressive moment prior to the civil rights movement. Previous histories of Reconstruction have focused on Washington politics. But in this sweeping, prodigiously researched narrative, Douglas Egerton brings a much bigger, even more dramatic story into view, exploring state and local politics and tracing the struggles of some fifteen hundred African-American officeholders, in both the North and South, who fought entrenched white resistance. Tragically, their movement was met by ruthless violence-not just riotous mobs, but also targeted assassination. With stark evidence, Egerton shows that Reconstruction, often cast as a “failure” or a doomed experiment, was rolled back by murderous force. The Wars of Reconstruction is a major and provocative contribution to American history.
Author |
: Peniel E. Joseph |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2022-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541600768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541600762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Third Reconstruction by : Peniel E. Joseph
One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction: a new struggle for citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that arose after the Civil War and during the civil rights era. Joseph draws revealing connections and insights across centuries as he traces this Third Reconstruction from the election of Barack Obama to the rise of Black Lives Matter to the failed assault on the Capitol. America’s first and second Reconstructions fell tragically short of their grand aims. Our Third Reconstruction offers a new chance to achieve Black dignity and citizenship at last—an opportunity to choose hope over fear.
Author |
: Pamela Brandwein |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822323168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822323167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstructing Reconstruction by : Pamela Brandwein
Looks at the contest to construct history, focusing on competing versions of Reconstruction history supported by different factions after the Civil War. The author analyzes how the ultimately dominant version of the history won credence and how that in
Author |
: Stanley Harrold |
Publisher |
: Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2008-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015073882600 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Civil War and Reconstruction by : Stanley Harrold
This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods. Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879 Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate
Author |
: Mick Herron |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2008-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569477359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569477353 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstruction by : Mick Herron
In this chillingly plausible thriller, CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron proves he “never tells a suspense story in the expected way” (The New York Times Book Review). When a highly classified espionage operation breaks down, a prisoner escapes from a transport vehicle on the busy ring road outside Oxford. Now an armed and desperate man is on the loose. He has taken refuge in a preschool, where a collection of teachers, parents, and students were about to start their day. No one understands what Jaime Segura wants, and he refuses to speak to anyone but an MI6 spy named Ben Whistler, a coworker of Jaime’s boyfriend, Milo, who has gone missing. Now, as law enforcement descends upon this quiet corner of Oxfordshire, Jaime holds the preschool hostage as his collateral, and one teacher, Louise Kennedy, finds herself in the terrifying position of protecting innocent children from the terrible decisions of the adults around them. As Louise steels her nerves and weighs her every decision, she also begins to put together the fragments of truth from the chaos around her—and no one is fiercer or more resourceful than a teacher on the trail of justice.
Author |
: Clyde N. Wilson |
Publisher |
: Shotwell Publishing LLC |
Total Pages |
: 78 |
Release |
: 2019-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1947660233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781947660236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1913 by : Clyde N. Wilson
THE THIRD INSTALLMENT of Dr. Clyde N. Wilson's SOUTHERN READER'S GUIDES distills more than a half century of scholarship into identifying and describing 50 essential books on the topic of the Reconstruction (1865-1876) and the New South (1877-1913). Dr. Wilson, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History of the University of South Carolina, was editor of the highly-praised Papers of John C. Calhoun and is the author or editor of more than 20 other books, and over 700 articles, essays, and reviews in a variety of books and journals, scholarly and popular. He is considered by many to be the greatest living historian of the South. If you want to understand Reconstruction and the New South without wasting your time on 3rd string authors and the p.c. infected pseudo-history coming out of the modern academy, there is no greater guide than Dr. Wilson. _________________ "I really enjoyed this! Wilson is a great guide to this literature. Reading this is like going to a bookstore with a wonderfully informed, witty old friend. Just be careful! You might- like me- end up buying several more books from his list." - Reader Review, The Old South: 50 Essential Books
Author |
: Robert Harrison |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2011-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139499026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139499025 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction by : Robert Harrison
In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's freed population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting from large-scale African-American migration. It also sheds new light on the political processes that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and the onset of black disfranchisement.