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Reviewed by Peter Argersinger | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2008
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REVIEWS

Conceiving a New Republic
The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869–1900

By Charles W. Calhoun
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. x, 347. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00.)

Involving some of the most momentous issues in American history, the Republicans' "Southern Policy" in the decades after the Civil War has long attracted scholarly attention. Charles Calhoun's Conceiving a New Republic, impressively researched and thoughtfully argued, is a major and welcome contribution to this body of scholarship. 1
      With varying degrees of emphasis, previous scholars have generally argued that political expediency was the major factor underlying Republican support for establishing the Fifteenth Amendment, enforcing black suffrage in the South, periodically attempting to recruit white southern voters, and finally abandoning efforts to maintain political rights for black southerners. Without denying the influence of the partisan imperative, Calhoun focuses on the ideological context within which Republicans developed and defended their policies, emphasizing the consistency with which they identified their goals and actions with achieving republicanism. . . .
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