Questions About John Brown

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About the only book on the Reconstruction that was ever mentioned during my college and post-graduate work in the 1960s and early-70s was The Tragic Era by Claude Bowers. How does it stand up to later ones?

And yes, I know he was part of the Dunning School of historians who have been blamed for creating the racial issues we have today... I'm no expert on that School, but if you have not heard about it, you really should read up on it.