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The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents state by state. They offer insight into the actions and thoughts, not only of agents, but also of southern planters and former slaver, as both of these groups learned how to deal with new responsibilities and altered relationship.
About the author
Paul A. Cimbala is Professor of History at Fordham University and editor of the Press's series The North's Civil War and Reconstructing America.
Randall M. Miller is the William Dirk Warren '05 Sesquicentennial Chair and Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University. He is author or editor of numerous books. Among his books related to the Civil War are, as coeditor,
Religion and the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1998), and
The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). His most recent book, coauthored with Paul Cimbala, is
The Northern Home Front in the Civil War (Praeger, 2012).
Summary
This text brings together many scholars who have been working through the Freedman's Bureau papers and other sources, to rethink the Bureau's place in securing freedom and remaking the South. It presents a sampling of the range and variety of work being done on the Bureau.
