Political Studies

Includes a story about African Americans and a discussion of contemporary amateur journalists. By eighteen-year-old Troy, New York, and Richmond, Virginia, amateur John Winslow Snyder (1855-1910); he became a lawyer and taught at the Kansas City (Missouri) School of Law.

This text reflects period prejudices and intolerance.

in conversation with John Stauffer

Acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha launches her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction in this hybrid program. A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction, Sinha's research fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.