Once upon a time in a country somewhat resembling this one, the Republican Party had a radical faction — and not because it believed in bizarre theories about election fraud or wanted to undermine ...

Part I: Reconstructing the nation. Prologue: Mourning Lincoln ; In the wake of the War ; Radical reconstruction ; The greater reconstruction ; Home ; Gilded liberals ; Triumph of wage labor ; Panic ; ...

The year before Sumter : radicals on the defense -- War : the concentration of extraordinary power for beneficent purposes -- 1862 -- Radicalism takes the offensive -- Reconstruction policy and ...