Reconstruction

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Ch 1: Vengeance
Ch 2: Arrogance
Ch 3: Alienation
Ch 4: Reconciliation
Ch 5: Dissension
Ch 6: Law
Ch 7: Withdrawal
Epilogue: Reconstructions
References
Further reading
Index