Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, which won the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Vengeance, April-December 1865Chapter Two: Alienation, December 1865-1867Chapter Three: Arrogance, March 1867-May 1868Chapter Four: Resistance, May 1868-March 1869Chapter Five: Distraction, March 1869-May 1872Chapter Six: Law, 1866-1876Chapter Seven: Dissension, September 1872-April 1877EpilogueTimelineNotesBibliographyIndex

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Concise History is a streamlined overview of the era by one of the major historians of the Civil War period. In this succinct but informative work, Mr. Guelzo traces the course of Reconstruction over time - its troublesome political and legal path - and helps us grasp both what it accomplished and why it failed.

Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, which won the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Vengeance, April-December 1865Chapter Two: Alienation, December 1865-1867Chapter Three: Arrogance, March 1867-May 1868Chapter Four: Resistance, May 1868-March 1869Chapter Five: Distraction, March 1869-May 1872Chapter Six: Law, 1866-1876Chapter Seven: Dissension, September 1872-April 1877EpilogueTimelineNotesBibliographyIndex

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Concise History is a streamlined overview of the era by one of the major historians of the Civil War period. In this succinct but informative work, Mr. Guelzo traces the course of Reconstruction over time - its troublesome political and legal path - and helps us grasp both what it accomplished and why it failed.

Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, which won the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Vengeance, April-December 1865Chapter Two: Alienation, December 1865-1867Chapter Three: Arrogance, March 1867-May 1868Chapter Four: Resistance, May 1868-March 1869Chapter Five: Distraction, March 1869-May 1872Chapter Six: Law, 1866-1876Chapter Seven: Dissension, September 1872-April 1877EpilogueTimelineNotesBibliographyIndex

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Concise History is a streamlined overview of the era by one of the major historians of the Civil War period. In this succinct but informative work, Mr. Guelzo traces the course of Reconstruction over time - its troublesome political and legal path - and helps us grasp both what it accomplished and why it failed.