Richard White, “The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896” (Oxford UP, 2017)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Dec 1, 2017 · 42m

Rapidly changing politics. Debates over the meaning of immigration. Widespread violence against minority groups. An economy undergoing a radical shift in form. The thirty years after the end of the Civil War have much in common with the United States in the second decade of the twenty first century, argues Stanford historian Richard White in The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford University Press, 2017). In this ninth volume of the long-running Oxford History of the United States series, White tells the story of a period…