A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865 - 1881 (eBook)

Edward O. Frantz (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-60775-6 (ISBN)

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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

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). 

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

Rezensionen

"Distinguished historians Ari Hoogenboom, John Marzsalek,
and Alan Peskin, and other rising scholars offer useful essays on
the presidents and an array of other topics central to this pivotal
period." (Expofairs.com, 4 August 2014)

"Edward Frantz has gathered a wide-ranging group of
experts who thoroughly cover the lives and overlapping
administrations of the three so-called "Reconstruction Presidents."
Often dismissed or disdained, Johnson, Grant, and Hayes emerge from
these lively and up-to-date essays not only as crucial figures
deserving of serious scholarly scrutiny and reassessment, but also
as engagingly human representatives of a turbulent era. A splendid
and worthwhile historiographical resource!"

--Joan Waugh, UCLA

"This most valuable collection of essays by renowned
experts offers an insightful survey of the scholarship covering the
lives of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes,
three men who helped secure military victory in the American Civil
War and who as presidents did much to shape the reconstructed
American republic that emerged from that conflict."

--Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University

"Distinguished historians Ari Hoogenboom, John Marzsalek,
and Alan Peskin, and other rising scholars offer useful essays on
the presidents and an array of other topics central to this pivotal
period."

--Charles W. Calhoun, East Carolina
University

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Notes on Contributors

Aaron Astor is Associate Professor of History at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. He is the author of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860–1872 (2012) and earned his PhD in History at Northwestern University in 2006. He is currently writing a book on the 1860 election as seen from the grassroots in four distinct American communities in Vermont, Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

James J. Broomall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Florida and author of a forthcoming essay on the post-Civil War South in the edited volume, Creating Citizenship in the 19th Century South. A scholar of the nineteenth century, he has both presented on and written about this topic in numerous forums and is currently writing a manuscript-length study of white southern men during the Civil War era.

Robert W. Burg holds a PhD in History from Purdue University (2005). He has taught in the University of Wisconsin system, most recently at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Currently, he is working on a manuscript entitled, “Burying Corruption: Liberal Republicans and the Politics of Reconstruction.”

Eric Leif Davin teaches Labor History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Crucible of Freedom: Workers’ Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960 (2010) and Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office (2012).

William B. Feis is Professor of History at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, and author of Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox (2002) and co-author/editor (with Allan R. Millett and Peter Maslowski) of For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America from 1607 to 2012 (3rd edn, 2012).

William M. Ferraro has been with the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia since 2006 and is now an Associate Professor and Associate Editor. Prior to beginning his current position, he performed all the primary editorial work on the documents related to Grant’s trip around the world as they appear in volumes 28 and 29 of John Y. Simon (ed.), The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.

Edward O. Frantz is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Civic Leadership & Archives at the University of Indianapolis. He is the author of The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877–1933.

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer teaches at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of race and democratic theory, as reflected in the law of democracy in general and the Voting Rights Act in particular. His dissertation, entitled “The Rise of a Concept: Judicial Independence in the American National Context, 1787–1833,” examines the way that the concept of judicial independence gained traction soon after the U.S. Constitution came into being as a necessary counterpoint to the rise of political parties. His courses at Indiana include voting rights, legal history, constitutional law, and legislation.

John Hepp is Associate Professor of history at Wilkes University and author of The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876–1926 (2003) and co-editor (with Leonard Schlup) of Selections from the Papers and Speeches of Warren G. Harding 1918–1923: The Twenty-Ninth President of the United States of America (2008).

David Hochfelder is Associate Professor of History at University at Albany, SUNY. Before that, he worked for six years as Assistant Editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University. He is the author of The Telegraph in America: 1832–1920 (2012) and is presently working on an economic, social, and cultural history of thrift in the United States from Franklin to the Great Recession. He has a PhD in History from Case Western Reserve University and a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Ari Hoogenboom is Professor of History emeritus at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He became interested in civil service reform while working on his PhD at Columbia University under David Herbert Donald and his dissertation was his first book, Outlawing the Spoils (1961). He continued his interest in administrative history by studying with his wife, Olive, the Interstate Commerce Commission, America’s first regulatory agency, and they published A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative (1976). Because civil service reform was an important issue in the Hayes administration, Hoogenboom was asked to write The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes (1988), and then published Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (1995). Hoogenboom also co-authored, with Philip S. Klein, A History of Pennsylvania (1973, rev. edn 1980) and edited for Facts on File, Encyclopedia of American History: The Development of the Industrial United States, 1870–1899 (2003, rev. edn 2010). His recent book, Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography (2008), is the product of a life-long interest in the Civil War and naval history.

Roman J. Hoyos is an Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “The Rise and Fall of Popular Sovereignty: Constitutional Conventions, Law and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America.”

Michelle Kuhl is an Associate Professor in the history department at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She has published articles on W.E.B. Du Bois’s short stories, the silencing of sexual assault in the anti-lynching movement, and African-American concerns about black masculinity after the defeat of the Plains Indians. In Oshkosh she teaches courses on women’s history, African-American history, and the Gilded Age and Progressive era.

John R. Lundberg earned his PhD in nineteenth-century U.S. history from Texas Christian University. He is the author of Granbury's Texas Brigade: Diehard Western Confederates, as well as more than half a dozen articles on the Civil War. He currently teaches as an Associate Professor of History at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth.

John F. Marszalek is Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Executive Director and Managing Editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association, Mississippi State University. He has published widely in nineteenth-century American history, particularly the Civil War.

Erik Mathisen is a Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He has written about the political history of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, with a particular emphasis on how black and white southerners reacted to the growth of the modern state during the war and its aftermath. He is also revising a book manuscript, entitled The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves & the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America.

Stephen McCullough is an Assistant Professor of History at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He graduated from New Mexico State University with a BA and MA and the University of Alabama with a PhD in history. He is currently turning his dissertation “Foreshadowing of Informal Empire: Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish’s Caribbean Policy 1869–1877” into a book. He is also presently undertaking research on the United States and the Nigerian Civil War and Biafran Genocide, 1966–1970. A native of Albuquerque, NM, he currently lives in West Grove, PA.

Eric J. Morser earned his doctorate in United States History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He is the author of Hinterland Dreams: The Political Economy of a Midwestern City (2011) and teaches at Skidmore College.

Marc-William Palen is a Lecturer in Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter, and a Research Associate at the U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney. His articles on Gilded Age politics and foreign relations have appeared in Diplomatic History and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Thomas R. Pegram is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s (2011), Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800–1933 (1998), and Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois, 1870–1922 (1992).

Allan Peskin is Professor Emeritus at Cleveland State University. He is the author of biographies of James A. Garfield and Winfield Scott, has edited Volunteers, the diaries of two Mexican War soldiers, North into Freedom, the memoirs of an Ohio free Negro, and has written numerous articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century America.

Andrew Prymak is a PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests concern the political economy during the Civil War and Reconstruction. His dissertation, “An Empire of Union: The American Civil War as an Imperial Project,...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th Century America • American Politics • American Social & Cultural History • American Social & Cultural History • Amerika im 19. Jahrhundert • Geschichte • History • Political Science • Politik / Amerika • Politikwissenschaft • Rutherford B. Hayes, Hayes, Ulysses S. Grant, Grant, Andrew Johnson, Johnson, presidential companion, presidents, Civil War, impeachment, carpetbaggers, Depression of 1873, Compromise of 1877 • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas • USA /Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-118-60775-9 / 1118607759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-60775-6 / 9781118607756