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What Reconstruction meant : historical memory in the American South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Bruce E., 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Series:American South series.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Public opinion.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Social aspects.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Historiography.
Memory > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945.
Public opinion > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • Creating meaning during Reconstruction
  • Wade Hampton's legend in Ben Tillman's world
  • Celebrating the Red Shirts
  • Memories and countermemory
  • Reconstruction and politics in the Roosevelt era
  • Radicals' Reconstruction
  • The strange career of the second Reconstruction.