Eric Anderson clarifies a confusing, uneven period of promise from the emancipation to the disfranchisement of black Americans. He examines regional and nationa

Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centers of black political influence in the late nineteenth century—North Carolina’s second congressional d

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effor

A history of North Carolina covers the social, economic, and political forces that shaped it.