Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881

A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a
series of original essays that explore a variety of important
issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of
Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes.

• Represents the first comprehensive look at the presidencies of
  Johnson, Grant, and Hayes in one volume

• Features contributions from top historians and presidential
  scholars

• Approaches the study of these presidents from a
  historiographical perspective

• Key topics include each president's political career;
  foreign policy; domestic policy; military history; and social
  context of their terms in office

Autorentext

Edward Frantz is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Indianapolis. He is the author of The Door of
Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy,
1877-1933 (2011).

Zusammenfassung

A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes.

• Represents the first comprehensive look at the presidencies of Johnson, Grant, and Hayes in one volume
• Features contributions from top historians and presidential scholars
• Approaches the study of these presidents from a historiographical perspective
• Key topics include each president's political career; foreign policy; domestic policy; military history; and social context of their terms in office

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

Part I Andrew Johnson 5

1 Andrew Johnson before the Presidency 7

Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

2 Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction 24

Erik Mathisen

3 Andrew Johnson: Race, the Constitution, and Democracy 42

Aaron Astor

4 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 62

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

5 Foreign Affairs and Andrew Johnson 85

Richard Zuczek

Part II Ulysses S. Grant 121

6 Ulysses S. Grant: Birth to the Mexican-American War
123

Pamela K. Sanfilippo

7 Ulysses S. Grant: Star on the Rise, 1861-1863 140

Brian Steel Wills

8 Ulysses S. Grant: The Making of a Military Politician,
1861-1865 165

Brian Holden Reid

9 The General-in-Chief, 1864-1865 188

William B. Feis

10 Ulysses S. Grant Goes to Washington: The Commanding General
as Secretary of War 214

James J. Broomall

11 The 1868 and 1872 Elections 235

Andrew Prymak

12 Looking for the Popular Culture of Grant's America
257

Woody Register

13 Reconstruction during the Grant Years: The Conundrum of
Policy 275

Thomas R. Pegram

14 Flames in the West: American Expansion, Federal Indian
Policy, and the Transformation of Indigenous Lives in the Age of
Grant 295

Eric J. Morser

15 Avoiding War: The Foreign Policy of Ulysses S. Grant and
Hamilton Fish 311

Stephen McCullough

16 Grant and Historical Memory 328

John F. Marszalek

17 Grant and Heroic Leadership 343

Frank J. Williams

18 Engagement Rather Than Escape: Ulysses S. Grant's World
Tour, 1877-1879 353

William M. Ferraro

Part III Rutherford B. Hayes 387

19 Crushing the Traitors: Rutherford B. Hayes in the Civil War
389

John R. Lundberg

20 Rutherford B. Hayes: The Road to the White House 403

Allan Peskin

21 Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877 415

Marc-William Palen

22 Hayes and Civil Service Reform 431

Ari Hoogenboom

23 The Shattered Dream: The Shock of Industrialization and the
Crisis of the Free Labor Ideal 452

Eric Leif Davin

24 Lifting the Veil of Obscurity?: Lucy Webb Hayes,
America's First "First Lady" 475

Katherine E. Rohrer

Part IV The Age of Reconstruction 497

25 Edison and the Age of Invention 499

David Hochfelder

26 Centennial Celebrations 517

John Hepp

27 Community Responsibilities, Citizenship Rights: Gender and
Power in the Reconstruction Era 538

Michelle Kuhl

28 Playing on a New Field: The U.S. Supreme Court in
Reconstruction 562

Roman J. Hoyos

29 Scandal, Corruption 581

Robert W. Burg

30 Ex-Presidents in the Age of Reconstruction 601

Edward O. Frantz

Index 617