Reconstruction Beyond 150

Orville Vernon Burton is the Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History at Clemson University and the author of The Age of Lincoln. J. Brent Morris is Professor of History at Clemson University and the author of Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp.

1. "They Loved but Did Not Agree": African American Women Divorcees in Post-Civil War Virginia (Arlisha Norwood) 2. Reconstructing Nationalism: Charles Sumner, Human Rights, and American Exceptionalism (Mark Elliott) 3. Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of Reconstruction (A. James Fuller) 4. Building a New Political Order: Reconstruction, Capitalism, and the Contest Over the American State (Nicolas Barreyre) 5. Race, Representation, and Reconstruction: The Origins and Persistence of Black Electoral Power, 1865-1900 (Peter Wallenstein) 6. Lynching in the American Imagination: A Historiographical Reexamination (Mari N. Crabtree) 7. "Magnificent Resources": Reconstruction in Indian Territory (Troy D. Smith) 8. A New Birth of Freedom Abroad (Don H. Doyle) 9. Confederate Reconstructions: Generations of Conflict (David Moltke-Hansen) 10. Reconstruction at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 (Krista Kinslow) 11. Mark Twain and the Failure of Radical Reconstruction (J. Mills Thornton) 12. Teaching DuBois' Black Reconstruction (Garry Bertholf and Marina Bilbija) 13. Three Historians and a Theologian: Howard Thurman and the Writing of African American History (Peter Eisenstadt) 14. Killing Calvin Crozier: Honor, Myth, and Military Occupation after Appomattox (Lawrence T. McDonnell)

"This necessary volume, which features new scholarship reflective of the current trends and directions in Reconstruction studies, encourages new questions and fills a necessary void. It is accessible and comprehensive. All of the essays are fine contributions and work well together." - Hilary Green, Davidson College, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South "A valuable contribution to the growing literature on Reconstruction and one which, importantly, sheds a bright light on aspects and issues of Reconstruction that have received little or no attention." - William C. Hine, South Carolina State University "No period in our history calls to us more urgently than Reconstruction, but no period demands closer or more subtle attention. These essays, exploring topics from high politics to literature and ranging from European capitals to Indian Territory, elegantly capture much of what historians have to offer a nation that is in many ways still locked in its post-Civil War struggles." - Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States