American newspapers redefined journalism after the Civil War by breaking away from the editorial and financial control of the Democratic and Republican parties.

After the War presents a panoramic view of social, political, and economic change in post-Civil War America by examining its journalism, from coverage of politi

Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusin

The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth

The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide r