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West from Appomattox by Heather Cox Richardson

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Also by Heather Cox Richardson:

Democracy Awakening, October 2023
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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections, June 2020
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How the South Won the Civil War, April 2020
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West from Appomattox
Heather Cox Richardson

The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War

Yale University Press
May 2008
On Sale: May 1, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0300136307
EAN: 9780300136302
Kindle: B0015R3Q3A
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Non-Fiction History

The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.  Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity that united three regions into a country that could become a world power. Ultimately, the story of Reconstruction is about how a middle class formed in America and how its members defined what the nation would stand for, both at home and abroad, for the next century and beyond.

A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book stretches the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era.

By weaving together the experiences of real individuals—from a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer to Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull--who lived during the decades following the Civil War and who left records in their own words, Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America.

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