Abstract
dry bones began to stir in that notable valley of historical skeletons, Reconstruction period. In February 1939, Journal of Southern History carried an article by Francis B. Simkins describing a number of New Viewpoints of Southern Reconstruction.' Frankly facing fact that the main issue of Reconstruction period, American race question, like Banquo's ghost, would not down, Simkins asked for a fairer analysis of Reconstruction's achievements and failures and an end to notion that encouraging Negro in voting and officeholding was somehow a crime of crimes. By adopting a more critical, creative and tolerant attitude, he said, historians of South could better discharge their great civic obligation.
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