Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress

This collection of eight essays, edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon, is the seventh volume in the series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877, edited by Kennon and published by Ohio University Press in conjunction with the United States Capitol Historical Society. Although the volume's editors do not expressly say so, the essays seem to have been originally delivered at one or another of the society's annual symposia. As its title suggests, Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress is devoted to the challenges the nation faced at the end of the war, although some of the essays extend well into the postwar period. Taken together, they provide an excellent window onto recent research on the Civil War and Reconstruction era. In their introduction, the editors offer an effective overview of the eight essays and situate them in the general historical context. However, they do not

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