The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.