| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction. By Mitchell Snay. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 218 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3273-9.)

Mitchell Snay, a professor of history at Denison University in Ohio, provides a new twist on the well-worn subject of Reconstruction. He offers no thesis that can be related in a single, simple sentence, but argues that by comparing and contrasting three groups of Americans who formed "semi-secret, fraternal, paramilitary societies," we can gain insight into the "dynamics" of the new American nationalism that resulted from the Civil War (pp. 12, 8). The Irish American Fenians, the mostly African American Union League, and the white southern Ku Klux Klan all fought for their own unique types of nationhood, and each did so primarily (and in the case of the Fenians, coincidentally) during the first half of Reconstruction.

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