...Carl N. Degler The Revival in Reconstruction History A Review Essay of Region, Race, and Reconstruction; Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward Carl N. Degler Although today biographers of John C. Calhoun do not quote the death­ bed words ascribed to him by his early biographer, Herman von Holst...

...Eric Foner While largely ignored by the historical profession when published in 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America has come to be regarded as a landmark of historical scholarship and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the era of Civil War and Reconstruction. Du...

...Thomas C. Holt Black Reconstruction makes powerful arguments about the critical roles black Americans played in forcing emancipation during the Civil War and in the reconstruction of southern society afterward that resonate much more with recent scholarship on the era than with that of his 1930s...

... thus be recognized as part and parcel of a long black radical tradition that stretches back to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction , the text that initially opened up consideration of slave women’s breeding as “work” and of slave women’s protest against reproduction in bondage as an expression...

...Moon-Ho Jung Although W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction has been recognized widely in recent decades as a seminal work in African American and US history, its radical critique of the US empire is rarely acknowledged. This essay explores the ways Du Bois carried out that wider critique. ©...

...Elizabeth Parish Smith This essay examines the experiences of three women—one Creole, one black, one white—in New Orleans’s Reconstruction-era demimonde. Enacted just months after the end of the Civil War and surviving in various forms for fifty-two years, a regulatory system governed the sex trade...

...Thavolia Glymph As W. E. B. Du Bois famously posited in Black Reconstruction in America (1935), the Civil War witnessed a massive slave rebellion. The “general strike,” as Du Bois called it, involved directly the flight of hundreds of thousands of slaves and the resistance mounted by those who...

...Rebecka Rutledge Fisher This essay discusses what W. E. B. Du Bois, in Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 , sees as the possibilities of black being, even as this being is conditioned by the constrictive and problematic interstitial sites of postbellum, Jim Crow existence that Du Bois names...

...Ferruccio Gambino This reminiscence intends to sketch out the political and intellectual atmosphere in which a minor episode took place within a wide redefinition of political activity: how a tiny but diverse group of young radicals came to read W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in the second...

...C. Chilton Pearson Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 William Henry Ruffner: Reconstruction Statesman of Virginia C. Chilton Pearson Wake Forest College II Among the excellencies of the Virginia constitution of 1869 was the flexibility of its school provisions. Taking ad­ vantage...

...Allen W. Trelease Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era . Edited by Rabinowitz Howard N. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1982 . Pp. xxiv , 424 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 472 The South Atlantic Quarterly scriptivist schlock...

...John B. Kirby New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction . By Powell Lawrence N. , New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1980 . Pp. xiv , 253 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 235 of the intellectual...

...Adam Fairclough Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Second Reconstruction, 1957 1973 Adam Fairclough By any orthodox standard, the Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ ence was an unusual organization. Run, as Andrew Young put...

...William L. Barney The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP . By McPherson James M. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1975 . Pp. ix , 438 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Book Reviews 255 those whose angle of vision has been...

...Gary C. Ness Southern Governors and Civil Rights: Racial Segregation as a Campaign Issue in the Second Reconstruction . By Black Earl . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. vii , 408 . $16.50 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 388 The South Atlantic...

...Robert H. Woody The Facts of Reconstruction . By Lynch John R. . Edited by Harris William C. . Indianapolis and New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. , 1970 . Pp. ivi , 325 . $2.75 , paper. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 114 The South Atlantic...

...Bruce Clayton The Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics . By Maddex Jack P. Jr . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1970 . Pp. 328 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 BOOKS The Virginia Conservatives, 1867...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Reconstruction and Education in Virginia Edgar W. Knight The second quarter of the nineteenth century is the begin­ ning in the United States of a period in educational develop­ ment which is marked by a growing tendency...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 Reconstruction and Education in Virginia* Edgar W. Knight Superintendent Ruffner began at once to set the system in active operation. County superintendents and local district trustees were appointed and were given instructions...

...Edgar W. Knight Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Reconstruction and Education in South Carolina Edgar W. Knight University of North Carolina Prior to the Civil War South Carolina failed to establish a system of public schools commensurate with its needs and resources, nor did...