The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America.Īt the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation.
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