LOCAL BOOK: New Orleans After The Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom
FEATURED LOCAL BOOK"We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world rendered uncertain and unfamiliar by the collapse of slavery.Commercially vibrant and racially unique […]