Gilded Age

A Moment of Insight or Confusion?

by Kevin Levin on February 9, 2009 · 25 comments · Follow me on

in Southern History, Teaching

I’ve always struggled to understand what I’ve assumed to be a radical transformation that took place within the Republican Party between Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.  As the story goes various pressures within the Republican Party caused them to abandon their Reconstruction agenda along with black civil rights, which allowed white ”Redeemers” to reestablish white supremacy.  The [...]