A Conversation with Manisha Sinha

We speak to the noted historian Manisha Sinha as we tackle the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, the class elements of white reaction against Reconstruction, the role of Southern elites, the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, the so-called Compromise of 1877 and the Wilmington Coup of 1898. A fascinating and very relevant discussion. Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and an authority on the history of slavery and abolition and the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.