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Walter Edgar's Journal: Reconstruction beyond 150

Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War.
Library of Congress
Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War.

In their book, Reconstruction beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris have brought together the best new scholarship, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding a crucial period in our country’s history. They talk with us about how the their project came about, and about how many "reconstructions" our country has seen since the Civil War.

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