The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil WarRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure. The first attempt to racially integrate West Point proved not simply a lost opportunity but an opportunity sabotaged with shocking degrees of forethought and delibe...

Charles Wadsworth Camp (1879-1936) was a journalist, critic, playwright, novelist, and soldier. Born in Philadelphia and educated at Princeton University, his work appeared in publications like Collier's and The New York Sun. He met the pianist Madeleine Barnett Camp at a wedding in Jacksonville, Florida, and they were married. Together they traveled extensively for his writing assignments until the outbreak of World War I. Charles covered both the Easter Rising in Ireland...