71 William C. Harris, “A Reconsideration of the Mississippi Scalawag,”
Journal of Mississippi History 37, no. 1 (2/1970): 11-13.
72 Ibid., 3-42; C. Vann Woodward, “Unfinished Business,” New York Review
of Books, May 12, 1988.
73 Again, Discovering American History is the exception because it doesn’t
mention Southern Republicans at all and hardly covers Reconstruction.
Ironically, most Northern whites who went south for economic gain were
Democrats.
74 The editors, “Liberating Our Past,” Southern Exposure 12, no. 6 (11/
1984): 2.
75 See LaWanda Cox and John Cox, “Negro Suffrage and Republican Politics:
The Problem of Motivation in Reconstruction Historiography,” Journal of
Southern History 33 (August 1967): 317-26; Richard Curry, ed., Radicalism,
Racism, and Party Realignment (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1969).
76 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 853. The population of the Union was
twenty-two million. In “The Reconstruction of Abraham Lincoln,” Ch. 5 of
David Middleton and Derek Edwards, eds., Collective Remembering
(London: Sage, 1991), Barry Schwartz analyzes the funeral as a crucial step in
Lincoln’s iconolatry.
77 Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4:296, 373-80; John T. Morse
Jr., ed., The Diary of Gideon Welles (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 2:288-
90.
78 Among white respondents Lincoln usually comes in first in opinion polls as
the “greatest president” or “greatest American,” partly because whites like
such personal traits as his humanitarian-ism, populist touch, and empathy,
according to Barry Schwartz in “Abraham Lincoln in the Black Community of
Memory” (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History
colloquium, 8/24/1993).
79 “The Lesson of the Hour,” in Warch and Fanton, John Brown, 108.
80 I must note an important exception: American Adventures, which is aimed
at younger or “slower” readers, devotes two of its two- to three-page chapters
to abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Thaddeus Stevens and presents
them with unusual flair.