Michael Pangrac

Michael Pangrac is a celebrated historical writer and an independent researcher of American history whose works provide a scholarly and critical reevaluation of the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. In his accurate and factual book, Southern Victory: A Reassessment of Reconstruction, Pangrac disputes the dominant historical narrative by highlighting the quantifiable economic recovery, orderly rebuilding of the Southern infrastructure, and deeply political transformations that changed the postwar South. His study charts in detail how the economy formerly based on slavery was changed to sharecropping and tenant farming, how railroads and waterways were restored with great efficiency and how the constitutional debates over federal authority and states rights were fiery and intense, thus enabling readers to have a reasonable, fact, based view of the period which is known as the most fought one in American history.