1877: America's Year of Living Violently

"[A] powerful examination of a nation trying to make sense of the complex changes and challenges of the post–Civil War era." —Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

In 1877—a decade after the Civil War—not only was the United States gripped by a deep depression, but the country was also in the throes of nearly unimaginable violence and upheaval, marking the end of the brief period known as Reconstruction and reestablishing white rule across the ...