During the performance, a man named John Wilkes Booth shot the president in the head. Booth was a fierce supporter of the Confederacy. He broke a leg while fleeing, but managed to escape. Lincoln was taken to a nearby lodging house ...
Playing at Ford's Theatre in Washington. D.C.. was a group performing a play called Our American Censin. It was Good Friday, and President and Mrs. Lincoln decided to attend the evening performance. He knew it was dangerous to appear in ...
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Reconstruction: A Letter to President Johnson
On April 9, 1865 general Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in central Virginia. Though several small battles occurred in the following weeks, Lee controlled ...
Finding it “inconceivable” that Lincoln would have followed Johnson's course, historian William Harris has suggested that Lincoln's political acumen made him more attuned to northern expectations for the postwar settlement.
In Reconstruction Award-winning writer and musician Johnson digs into the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powers that be: from the lives of vampires and those caught in their circle in Hawai’i to a taxonomy of anger put together ...
Describes the changes brought about by the Civil War, discusses the impact of slavery's end, and looks at the political, economic, and social aspects of Reconstruction.
Reconstruction: A Concise History' is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans ...
Examines the impact of Reconstruction on the everyday lives of white Southerners, American Indians, Union soldiers, and former slaves.
This title focuses on the goals, changes, and political conflicts of the Reconstruction era, especially the advances and setbacks related to civil rights.
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governor. Ames secured the nomination, leading Alcorn to run as an Independent. Radical Republicans carried the election for Ames. Inaugurated in January 1874, the governor ... Three Carpetbag Governors. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State ...
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Allen C. Guelzo's 'Reconstruction' is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans ...
Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Reconstruction, as the United States government and people worked to recover from the effects of the Civil War.
In this concise history, award-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo delves into the constitutional, political, and social issues behind Reconstruction to provide a lucid and original account of a historical moment that left an indelible mark ...