Declarations of Dependence: Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908 Downs' book Declarations of Dependence: Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908 was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Omar H. Ali wrote in The American Historical Review, "Gregory P. Downs offers a bold reappraisal of how Americans in the South attempted to navigate the various political and economic challenges they faced from the Civil War through the turn of the century" and that Downs' argument was "compelling"; he praised Downs' "blurring the lines between rights that are inherent to one's free status and special favors based on one's dependency". Joe A. Mobley in The North Carolina Historical Review wrote, "Gregory P. Downs takes an interesting and unique approach to interpreting North Carolina's history from the Civil War to the early twentieth century". After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War Downs' 2015 history book, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, was reviewed by Fergus Bordewich of The Wall Street Journal as follows: "Mr. Downs rightly regards the appalling white-on-black violence of the late 1860s and early 1870s as systemic terrorism. Unfortunately, he lacks the human touch and eye for color that could bring alive the visceral dimension of the terrorist violence wrought upon the freed blacks". Robert S. Davis of The New York Journal of Books wrote: "Seemingly every page of this work teaches something new and important about this period, such as the history of Tunis Campbell and his near independent black state in Georgia, and Lincoln's four shadow state governments". Works Spit Baths. University of Georgia Press, 2006. Declarations of Dependence: Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. After Slavery: After Slavery: Race, Labor, and citizenship in the Reconstruction South, edited by Bruce E. Baker and Brian Kelly. Contributor: "Anarchy at the circumference: statelessness and the reconstruction of authority in emancipation North Carolina." University Press of Florida, 2013. (Editor, with Kate Masur) The World the Civil War Made. University of North Carolina Press, 2015. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. Harvard University Press, 2015. The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. References Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winners City College of New York faculty Yale University alumni University of Pennsylvania