By Professor Heather Cox Richardson
A sweeping historical past of the U.S. from the period of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this enticing ebook stretches the limits of our realizing of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the postCivil conflict tale that sometimes focuses narrowly at the South, encompassing the numerous humans and occasions of this profoundly very important era.
By weaving jointly the reviews of actual individualsfrom a plantation mistress, a local American warrior, and a exertions organizer to Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bullwho lived in the course of the many years following the Civil struggle and who left files of their personal phrases, Richardson tells a narrative concerning the construction of recent America.
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