The Republic For Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896by Richard WhiteOxford University Press, 2017The latest volume in the Oxford History of the United States is The Republic For Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Stanford University history professor Richard White, and it covers a thirty-year stretch of American history that White rightly describes as “historical flyover country.” Typically in survey-volumes, “writers and scholars departed the Civil War, taxied through Reconstruction, and embarked on a flight to the twentieth century and the Progressives, while only barely touching down in between.”Fortunately, the entries in the Oxford History are seldom typical.
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