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Reconstruction Beyond 150

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow.

Reconstruction Beyond 150

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow.

1. Elliot Vernon

The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution

The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.

Soldiering with Sherman

Union Saergent George F. Cram's letters reveal an educated young man's experiences as part of Sherman's army. The letters convey candid insights into the social dimensions of the US Civil War, with a piercing objectivity, optimism and a dry sense of humour.

1. Jules Verne

The Blockade Runners