Reconstruction of the South ... to the nation's first military draft triggers a riot, the largest in American history, as poor white Northerners protest being forced to fight to end slavery.

Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

Federalism Isn’t a Partisan Fallback — It’s a Foundation A massive new history ... The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched off remade the American nation in ...

examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. She is currently working on an intellectual history of American politics and a graphic ...