Contents

 

 

 

Chronology

1 “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”:
Constructing Reconstruction History

2 Lincoln “Unmurdered”: Reconstruction Alternatives and Counterfactuals

3 “Let's Make a Start”: Women and Reconstruction

4 “Sunshine Headin' My Way”: Memories of Reconstruction in Black and White

5 Wilkes & Kennedy, Inc.: War and the Destruction of the Old Order

6 “I Am Vengeful and I Shall Not Sleep”:
The Civil War and the Legacy of Violence during Reconstruction

7 “A Gallant Soldier and a Christian Gentleman”:
The Reconciliation of North and South

8 The Princess of the Moon: The Lost Cause, Reconstruction, and Southern Memory

Notes

Index

List of Film Directors