Lebbeus Woods is widely regarded as the most exciting and original architectural visionary today. His body of theoretical work and extraordinary drawings have served as inspiration for architects, artists, and legions of students. Radical Reconstruction, now available in paperback for the first time, contains projects that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. These projects define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable and largely uncontrollable forces of both human and natural origin.
... Otto H. Olsen's Carpetbagger's Crusade : The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgée , and even more recently in Richard N. Current's examination of the careers of three carpetbag governors , including the " notorious " Henry Clay Warmoth .
Reform is the central theme of the book: fire protection, public health, labor, education, and voting are some of the areas covered.
In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them.
Clark to Mr. E. Carpenter, December 5, 1865, Letters Sent, ACDC, BRFAL. 49. josephine Emma Griffing was probably twenty-five at the time. After her work with the Freedmen's Bureau ended,josephine Emma worked in the federal pension ...
John H. Napier III, “Montgomery during the Civil War,” Alabama Review 41 (April 1988): 103–31. 3. ... For exceptional studies of Alabama scalawags, see Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins, The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865– 1881 (Tuscaloosa: ...
Racism, Revolution, Reaction, 1861-1877: The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
Revisiting the story of the South's “most perfect scalawag,” Ginsberg contributes to a broader understanding of the essential role southern Jews played during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
In Crucible of Reconstruction, Ted Tunnell examines the byzantine complexities of Louisiana's restoration to the Union, from the capture of New Orleans to the downfall of the Radical Republicans a decade and a half later.
The book also includes an introductory overview of Tourgée's life and an exhaustive bibliography of Tourgée's writings and related works, providing an essential collection for anyone studying Reconstruction and the early civil rights ...