Reconstruction in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political, 1865-1872

Fair-minded and comprehensive, C. Mildred Thompson's RECONSTRUCTION IN GEORGIA (1915) has long been considered among the best of the state studies to emerge from Columbia University's Dunning School. This coterie of graduate students in Professor William A. Dunning's famed Reconstruction seminar produced studies of Reconstruction in their native states which were widely admired and appreciatively reviewed in their time.Thompson's book, however, won over many revisionists, among them the Reconstruction historian Vernon Lane Wharton (1907-1964), who termed RECONSTRUCTION IN GEORGIA "cautious, judicious, and temperate." Wharton noted that Thompson's "story of Reconstruction was no simple tale of good versus evil. She recognized and attempted to analyze the complexities to be found in men and social change." This new edition reintroduces Thompson's classic and corrects the major flaw of the original by including a full index, and also offers a detailed biographical sketch of the author.