History of Reconstruction in Louisiana: (Through 1868)

John Rose Ficklen was a professor of history at Tulane and an historian of Louisiana. His History of Reconstruction in Louisiana was along term project that he was assembling when he unexpectedly died in1907.The book was …

John Rose Ficklen was a professor of history at Tulane and an historian of Louisiana. His History of Reconstruction in Louisiana was along term project that he was assembling when he unexpectedly died in1907.The book was polished and published by Ficklen's protege, Pierce Butler,in 1911. Ficklen's original study was the first work focused on Louisiana's Reconstruction, which had started earlier than most Southern states and was identified by Nordhoff, Bowers, and others as the most dysfunctional, corrupt, and violent of the Reconstruction South. Ficklen's composition ended with 1868, thus explaining his subtitle, but the work remained a standard of scholarship so that Ella Lonn, who published the thorough Reconstruction in Louisiana in 1918, began her history in 1868 and gave Ficklen the last word on Louisiana during and immediately after the War.