Reconstruction as it should have been: An exercise in counterfactual history

Civil War History

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 358-363

  Huston, James L ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950322032     PISSN: 00098078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2005.0063     Document Type: Review

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