Republicae

@Jeff_Davis1808 Then of course, there was another Marxist Eric Forner who saw it as the Second American Revolution, still unfinished. And Carl Schurz too.

@Jeff_Davis1808 The claim that “every Northern historian trashed Reconstruction for 100 years—even the ones anti-Southern on the war” is an overstatement. For roughly the first half of the 20th century (roughly 1890s–1950s), the dominant view—the Dunning School.

@Jeff_Davis1808 W.E.B. Du Bois (Massachusetts), in his 1935 Black Reconstruction in America, offered a powerful counter-narrative, framing Reconstruction as a progressive, interracial democratic experiment sabotaged by racism, Northern retreat, and capitalist interests—not inherent flaws.