Michael Pangrac is an amateur historian and author whose notable work is the book Southern Victory: A Reassessment of Reconstruction. In the book, he questions the conventional stories of the Reconstruction era after the U. S. Civil War, mainly by emphasizing the South's comeback and the positive facts that were ignored, such as the rebuilding of the infrastructure, the economic reshaping, and the political managing of the transition from a slave system to new labor forms like sharecropping.