Table of Contents:
  • Language that cannot be misunderstood : African American commemoration, 1863-1913
  • The vanguard of liberty must look into the past : celebrations of freedom
  • A resurrection of manhood : gendered reconstruction
  • Has emancipation been a failure? : the end of Reconstruction
  • Signs of the times : making progress in the post-Reconstruction South
  • Bosoms filled with hope : collective representation in the age of Jim Crow.