At the close of the Civil War; it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics; policy; and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post–Civil War America; the essays in this volume explore these profound changes not only in the South but also in the Southwest; in the Great Plains; and abroad. Resisting the tendency to use Reconstruction as a catchall; the contributors instead present diverse histories of a postwar nation that stubbornly refused to adopt a unified ideology and remained violently in flux. Portraying the social and political landscape of postbellum America writ large; this volume demonstrates that by breaking the boundaries of region and race and moving past existing critical frameworks; we can appreciate more fully the competing and often contradictory ideas about freedom and equality that continued to define the United States and its place in the nineteenth-century world. Contributors include Amanda Claybaugh; Laura F. Edwards; Crystal N. Feimster; C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa; Steven Hahn; Luke E. Harlow; Stephen Kantrowitz; Barbara Krauthamer; K. Stephen Prince; Stacey L. Smith; Amy Dru Stanley; Kidada E. Williams; and Andrew Zimmerman.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable memoirBy SandraI grew up in Los Alamos; the daughter of a physicist who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Learning about the author's path to Los Alamos was very interesting.
