A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
by Mark Wahlgren Summers
Civil War America (2009)
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Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was--first and show more foremost--to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. During Reconstruction there we show lessTags
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- 973.8 — History & geography History of North America United States The Gilded Age, Reconstruction, Spanish American War (1865-1901)
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- E668 .S93 — History of the United States United States Late nineteenth century, 1865-1900 Johnson's administration, April 15, 1865-1869 Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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