While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth ...

The Radical Republicans' program for reconstruction continued. In 1868, the Republican candidate, General Ulysses S. Grant, won the presidency.

But the bloody conflict created a new divide in Missouri politics, between Radical Republicans ... loyalty oath, the Republicans triumphed at the polls. By the time of the 1868 elections ...