Reconstruction as a constitutional crisis

Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 141-171

  Vorenberg, Michael ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Between; Congressional; Industrialization; Rights; Sectionalism

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EID: 85199613442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195175950.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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