Fleming, Walter Lynwood. Documentary history of reconstruction, political, military, social, educational, and industrial, 1865 to the present time. 2v. $10. Clark, A. H.
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v. 1. The first of two volumes whose purpose is to make some of the sources relating to the political, military, social, religious, educational, and industrial history of the reconstruction period more easily accessible to the student and the general reader. “The six chapters of this first volume deal with the South after the war, theories of reconstruction, reconstruction by the president, race and labor problems, the Freedman’s bureau and bank, and Congressional reconstruction. It covers the years 1865–1868. Every chapter has a brief historical introduction, a topical bibliography and a collection of extracts grouped in analytical array.” (Ind.)
v. 2. The second volume of this documentary history “gives ample material to illuminate actual conditions under the Reconstruction governments, with special reference to race relations, political morality, and economic, educational, and religious matters during the carpet-bag régime, and the final undoing of Reconstruction.”—Dial.
“The work has the limitations which are inseparable from all source-books of limited size, but it also has what many source books have not, namely, interest.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The material throughout is interesting and valuable.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 166. O. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Little can be said in the way of criticism upon the text of the book.”