| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869–1900. By Charles W. Calhoun. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 347 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1462-1.)
Charles W. Calhoun has written a long-overdue reassessment of the Republican party and its relationship to the "southern question." By focusing on Republican ideas, specifically the party's understanding of the meaning of "republicanism," the author attempts to see Republicans in a new light. Concentrating on what leading Republican officeholders said and wrote, Calhoun's study demonstrates the richness of Gilded Age political debate.	1
Conceiving a New Republic analyzes a subject that received intense academic scrutiny during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Then, a generation of historians focused on the Republican party's "abandonment" of African Americans between 1872 and 1896. In that telling, Republicans, faced with an increasingly apathetic electorate in the North, a troubled economy, and white southern hostility, eventually gave up on their experiment.	. . .

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