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First published in 1905, Peter Joseph Hamilton's The Reconstruction Period is a detailed and scholarly study of the social, economic, and political challenges faced by American society in the wake of the Civil War. With detailed analyses of the Reconstruction amendments, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the politics of Reconstruction in the southern states, Hamilton's book remains an important contribution to the history of post-Civil War America.
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