Category: Book Reviews

From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas 1865-1869 (Black Community Studies) by Randy Finley published by The University of Arkansas Press (1996) 229…

Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean published by Fordham University Press (2016)…

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran published by University of North Carolina Press (2013) 380 pages Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $17.49….

This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber published by Univerity of North Carolina Press (2018) 234 pages. Hardcover $32.95…

Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction by Carl H. Moneyhon published by Texas A&M Press (2004) 248 pages. Kindle $14.68, Paperback $19.95.​ Carl…

Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie (2012) $26.95 Hardcover, $16.96 Paper, $3.99 Kindle. ​ I…

The new book on the Reconstruction Era by Henry Louis Gates is reviewed by The Nation Magazine.  Here is an excerpt from the review of…

The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era by Douglas R. Egerton published by Bloomsbury Press (2014) 448 pages. $30.00 Hardcover,…

The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers published by the University of North Carolina Press (2014) 522 pages Hardcover…

Newly Published Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin published by University of North Carolina Press (2019) Hardcover…