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Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether African Americans participated in the politics of the long nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects.
Review Quotes: Gosse and Waldstreicher have assembled a well-organized and carefully edited collection. The editors and the authors have thoughtfully merged the unique historical research and analysis of each author with the volume's larger arguments about nineteenth-century Black people's political engagement. Their collection is only a preview of a developing body of work that will surely transform scholarly understandings of the evolution of US politics.-- "Early American Literature"