books.google.com - The pivotal era of Reconstruction has inspired an outstanding historical literature. In the half-century after W.E.B. DuBois published Black Reconstruction in America (1935), a host of thoughtful and energetic authors helped to dismantle racist stereotypes about the aftermath of emancipation and Union...http://books.google.com/books/about/Reconstructions_New_Perspectives_on_Post.html?id=Gel9E1O1wWIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReconstructions : New Perspectives on Postbellum America