Todd’s Reviews > The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 > Status Update

White (my favorite environmental historian) is a clear writer who makes complicated historical conflicts open up, but also draws important conclusions from the evidence. The intro about Lincoln's assassination was a lovely read. Small details of the immediate aftermath of the Civil War & Reconstruction have surprised me, such as how freedpeople guarded and cared for the unmarked graves of union soldiers in the south.