“At least on paper, Congress had dramatically enlarged federal power and black rights. In December 1866 only about 0.5 percent of black adult males could vote. In December 1867 the figure rose to 80.5 percent, with the entire increase coming in the old Confederacy.” — Richard White Copy Share Image
“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“I have known tolerably well, a good many “successful” men—“ big” financially—men famous during the last half-century, and a less interesting crowd I do… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“Sound familiar? Rutherford B. Hayes was someone who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right. James A. Garfield,… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“A European visitor in the 1880s remarked that the only sense not offended by American cooking was hearing.” — Richard White Copy Share Image
“At least on paper, Congress had dramatically enlarged federal power and black rights. In December 1866 only about 0.5 percent of black adult males… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“You can't trust the government to do anything right-except, of course, to conspire and cover up. Then it becomes diabolically efficient. The very people… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“Sumner asserted that without equality of citizens before the law and full consent of the governed, a government could not be considered republican. It… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“In 1870 in response to the Fifteenth Amendment, the citizens of Michigan made a simple but far-reaching alteration to their 1850 constitution. They struck… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“In 1800 the United States had a birth rate higher than any ever recorded for a European country, but it fell steeply and consistently… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“What was developing in the South was a coercive labor system, which although not slavery, was not free labor either. It depended on extralegal… — Richard White Copy Share Image
“Collectivizing risk and considering the community as a whole rather than the individual was a form of “communism,” but the practice paradoxically allowed people… — Richard White Copy Share Image
