Overview

Michael Pangrac is a local lore writer and a researcher of U. S. history, specifically the reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. In his book Southern Victory: A Reassessment of Reconstruction, Pangrac reevaluates the interpretation that has been taken for granted by focusing the economic rebuilding, infrastructure development, and political changes that the postwar South was shaped by. His study covers the transition of the south for the slave, based economy to the different systems like sharecropping and tenant farming, the revival of railroads and rivers, and the argument for states rights even against federal power.