Reconstruction

  • Reconstruction
    By Alan Pierce

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: Years Following Civil War
    By Linda R. Wade

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: Rebuilding After the Civil War
    By Judith Peacock

    U.S. Civil War Hall http://www.warmuseum.net/uscivilwarhall Visitors can take a virtual tour of the U.S. Civil War Hall museum . The Valley of the Shadow : Two Communities in the American Civil War http : // jefferson . village ...

  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863 - 1877
    By Jason Xidias

    Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance John Kotter's Leading Change C. K. ... New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michael R. Gottfredson & Travis Hirschi's A General ...

  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
    By Eric Foner

    Wayne D. Rasmussen , “ The Civil War : A Catalyst of Agricultural Revolution , " AgH , 39 ( October 1965 ) , 187-95 ; Clyde O. Ruggles , " The Economic Basis of the Greenback Movement in lowa and Wisconsin , ” Proceedings of the ...

  • Reconstruction: A Letter to President Johnson
    By Agénor comte de Gasparin

    Reconstruction: A Letter to President Johnson

  • Reconstruction
    By Katie Marsico

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: A Reference Guide
    By Paul E. Teed Ph.D., Melissa Ladd Teed Ph.D.

    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.

  • Reconstruction: Stories
    By Alaya Dawn Johnson

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
    By Eric Foner

    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
    By Allen C. Guelzo

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: People and Perspectives
    By James M. Campbell, Rebecca J. Fraser

    Examines the impact of Reconstruction on the everyday lives of white Southerners, American Indians, Union soldiers, and former slaves.

  • Reconstruction
    By Olivia Ghafoerkhan

    This title focuses on the goals, changes, and political conflicts of the Reconstruction era, especially the advances and setbacks related to civil rights.

  • Reconstruction: a Very Short Introduction
    By Allen C. Guelzo

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  • Reconstruction: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
    By Richard Zuczek

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings
    By Leon F. Litwack, Kenneth M. Stampp

    ... Otto H. Olsen's Carpetbagger's Crusade : The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgée , and even more recently in Richard N. Current's examination of the careers of three carpetbag governors , including the " notorious " Henry Clay Warmoth .

  • Reconstruction
    By Brendan January

    Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.

  • Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction
    By Allen C. Guelzo

    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 ...

  • Reconstruction: A Primary Source History of the Struggle to Unite the North and South After the Civil War
    By Timothy Flanagan

    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.

  • Reconstruction: A Concise History
    By Allen C. Guelzo

    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 ...