Pulitzer Prize History Winner
The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900
by Paul Herman Buck
Summary
Buck examines how a bitterly divided North and South moved toward national reconciliation in the decades after the Civil War. He traces the sentiment, literature, and politics that knit white Americans back together, while showing how that reunion came at the cost of abandoning the freedpeople's rights. The book offers an influential, and now much debated, account of sectional healing and its racial price.
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Historical Context & Significance
Buck, a Harvard historian, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1938 for this study of post Civil War reconciliation.