Chris Bonner's Remaking the Republic Reviewed in The New York Review of Books

NYRB Reviews UMD Historian's Recent Book

Chris Bonner's recent book, Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, paperback Feb 2023) is reviewed as part of an essay by Manish Sinha in the April 20, 2023 issue of The New York Review of Books. The review essay is titled "The Beautiful Struggle," considers books on the subject of Black freedom and citizenship after the US civil war. The reviewer writes: "One of the strengths of Bonner’s book lies in his recovering of the ideas and lives of the largely unknown Black activists involved in these conventions, like Samuel H. Davis and William C. Munroe."

See the full review HERE.