Michael W. Fitzgerald is Professor of History at St. Olaf College. He is the author of The Union League Movement in the Deep South, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, Sp...view moreMichael W. Fitzgerald is Professor of History at St. Olaf College. He is the author of The Union League Movement in the Deep South, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, Splendid Failure, and, most recently, Reconstruction in Alabama (2017).view less