Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: race and radicalism

Abstract

Foreword Phillipp Schofield 1. Introduction 2. Wartime Washington 3. The Freedmen's Bureau in the District of Columbia 4. An 'experimental garden for the propagation of political hybrids': congressional reconstruction in the District of Columbia 5. Reconstructing the city government 6. Race, radicalism, and reconstruction: grassroots Republican politics 7. A city and a state: governing the District of Columbia 8. From biracial democracy to direct rule: the end of self-government in the nation's capital 9. Conclusion.