A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881
656A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881
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Overview
- Represents the first comprehensive look at the presidencies of Johnson, Grant, and Hayes in one volume
- Features contributions from top historians and presidential scholars
- Approaches the study of these presidents from a historiographical perspective
- Key topics include each president’s political career; foreign policy; domestic policy; military history; and social context of their terms in office
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118607756 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 03/24/2014 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 656 |
File size: | 3 MB |
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1
Part I Andrew Johnson 5
1 Andrew Johnson before the Presidency 7 Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein
2 Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction 24 Erik Mathisen
3 Andrew Johnson: Race, the Constitution, and Democracy 42 Aaron Astor
4 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 62 Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
5 Foreign Affairs and Andrew Johnson 85 Richard Zuczek
Part II Ulysses S. Grant 121
6 Ulysses S. Grant: Birth to the Mexican–American War 123 Pamela K. Sanfilippo
7 Ulysses S. Grant: Star on the Rise, 1861–1863 140 Brian Steel Wills
8 Ulysses S. Grant: The Making of a Military Politician, 1861–1865 165 Brian Holden Reid
9 The General-in-Chief, 1864–1865 188 William B. Feis
10 Ulysses S. Grant Goes to Washington: The Commanding General as Secretary of War 214 James J. Broomall
11 The 1868 and 1872 Elections 235 Andrew Prymak
12 Looking for the Popular Culture of Grant’s America 257 Woody Register
13 Reconstruction during the Grant Years: The Conundrum of Policy 275 Thomas R. Pegram
14 Flames in the West: American Expansion, Federal Indian Policy, and the Transformation of Indigenous Lives in the Age of Grant 295 Eric J. Morser
15 Avoiding War: The Foreign Policy of Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish 311 Stephen McCullough
16 Grant and Historical Memory 328 John F. Marszalek
17 Grant and Heroic Leadership 343 Frank J. Williams
18 Engagement Rather Than Escape: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour, 1877–1879 353 William M. Ferraro
Part III Rutherford B. Hayes 387
19 Crushing the Traitors: Rutherford B. Hayes in the Civil War 389 John R. Lundberg
20 Rutherford B. Hayes: The Road to the White House 403 Allan Peskin
21 Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877 415 Marc-William Palen
22 Hayes and Civil Service Reform 431 Ari Hoogenboom
23 The Shattered Dream: The Shock of Industrialization and the Crisis of the Free Labor Ideal 452 Eric Leif Davin
24 Lifting the Veil of Obscurity?: Lucy Webb Hayes, America’s First “First Lady” 475 Katherine E. Rohrer
Part IV The Age of Reconstruction 497
25 Edison and the Age of Invention 499 David Hochfelder
26 Centennial Celebrations 517 John Hepp
27 Community Responsibilities, Citizenship Rights: Gender and Power in the Reconstruction Era 538 Michelle Kuhl
28 Playing on a New Field: The U.S. Supreme Court in Reconstruction 562 Roman J. Hoyos
29 Scandal, Corruption 581 Robert W. Burg
30 Ex-Presidents in the Age of Reconstruction 601 Edward O. Frantz
Index 617
What People are Saying About This
“Edward Frantz has gathered a wide-ranging group of experts who thoroughly cover the lives and overlapping administrations of the three so-called "Reconstruction Presidents." Often dismissed or disdained, Johnson, Grant, and Hayes emerge from these lively and up-to-date essays not only as crucial figures deserving of serious scholarly scrutiny and reassessment, but also as engagingly human representatives of a turbulent era. A splendid and worthwhile historiographical resource!” —Joan Waugh, UCLA
“This most valuable collection of essays by renowned experts offers an insightful survey of the scholarship covering the lives of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes, three men who helped secure military victory in the American Civil War and who as presidents did much to shape the reconstructed American republic that emerged from that conflict.” —Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University
“Distinguished historians Ari Hoogenboom, John Marzsalek, and Alan Peskin, and other rising scholars offer useful essays on the presidents and an array of other topics central to this pivotal period.” —Charles W. Calhoun, East Carolina University