A confused and confusing affair : Arkansas and Reconstruction /

The five essays in this volume offer valuable insights into the Reconstruction era in Arkansas and how its effects still resonate today.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Christ, Mark K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Little Rock : Butler Center Books, a division of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • The complex character of post-Civil War Reconstruction, 1863-1877 / by Carl H. Moneyhon
  • An (un)exceptional moment: the politics of Reconstruction-era Arkansas / by Jay Barth
  • African American legislators in the Arkansas General Assembly, 1868-1893: another look / by Blake Wintory
  • Brindletails, minstrels, Hercules, and Lady Baxter: the Brooks-Baxter War and the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas / by Thomas A. DeBlack
  • "It ain't over till it's over": political violence in Reconstruction Arkansas, 1865-1892 / by Kenneth C. Barnes
  • Redeeming Arkansas: the Constitution of 1874 and post-war politics in Arkansas / by Rodney Harris.