In contrast to earlier historians who viewed reconstruction in negative terms and focused on the era's tragedies and graft, corruption, high taxes, and huge public debts, revisionist historians have found much to admire in the preparations begun in the early postwar years to integrate african

This is true. The reconstruction era might have been tragic for many, but it also enabled many future progressive ideas to be spread. Without the horrors of reconstruction, who knows when the civil rights fight would begin and how it would be handled if it was left in the hands of those who were in charge during reconstruction. It also created a way for women rights to develop and for their voting rights fight to begin.