Michael Pangrac is a passionate historian and the author of Southern Victory: A Reassessment of Reconstruction, which presents an original analysis of the post, Civil War South and contests established accounts. In this book, Pangrac studies the energetic revival of the Souths economy, infrastructure, and social systems, analyzes the change from a slave, based economy to various labor systems, and brings to light the controversies over states rights and federal intervention during Reconstruction alongside the regions endurance and influence on the course of American history.