The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White

This book, immense and erudite, follows such great series volumes as James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought, and series editor David Kennedy's Pulitzer-winning Freedom from Fear, and it shares with virtually all of its predecessors a smooth combination of earnest scholarship and inviting, almost conversational tone. 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.

The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White