Still the arena of Civil War
Subtitle: violence and turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874
By: edited by Kenneth Wayne Howell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Denton, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781574414493; 9781574414578
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Frontier and pioneer life; Violence; Violence against; Minorities; History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the elusive story of violence in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874 / by Kenneth W. Howell; title: Representatives of change: soldiers, bureau agents, and lawmen; title: The post of greatest peril?: the Freedmen's Bureau subassistant commissioners and Reconstruction violence in Texas, 1865/1869 / by Christopher Bean; title: "Shoot or get out of the way!": the murder of Texas Freedmen's Bureau agent William G. Kirkman by Cullen Baker; and the historians / by William L. Richter; title: The world turned upside down?: the military occupation of Victoria and Calhoun counties, 1865/1867 / by Charles D. Spurlin; title: William Longworth, Republican villain / by Richard B. McCaslin; title: "The old hero of many cowardly and bloody murders": scalawag gang leader Ben Brown / by Dale Baum; title: Finding a solution to Reconstruction violence: the Texas State Police / by Donaly Brice; title: The insurgents and their allies: Texas terrorists, politicians, and newspaper editors; title: When the Klan rode: terrorism in Reconstruction Texas / by James M. Smallwood; title: The Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the politics of fear / by Carl H. Moneyhon; title: "A free and outspoken press": coverage of Reconstruction violence and turmoil in Texas newspapers, 1866/1868 / by Mary Jo O'Rear; title: The victims: minorities and women; title: Into freedom's abyss: reflections of Reconstruction violence in Texas / by Ronald Goodwin; title: Foreigners in their native land: the violent struggle between Anglos and Tejanos for land titles in South Texas during Reconstruction / by Andres Tijerina; title: "To punish and humiliate the entire community": white violence perpetrated against African-American women in Texas, 1865/1868 / by Rebecca Kosary; title: Regional perspectives: the frontier, the interior, and places in between; title: Governor James Throckmorton and the question of frontier violence in Reconstruction Texas, 1866/1867 / by Kenneth W. Howell; title: An uncompromising line between Yankee rule and rebel rowdies: Reconstruction violence in Lavaca County / by Douglas Kubicek and Carroll Scogin-Brincefield; title: Reconstruction violence on the lower Brazos River Valley / by John W. Gorman.