reconstruction (1865-1876)

Features the debates that surrounded America's Reconstruction period following the Civil War.

Presents a study of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and discusses both the positive and negative effects of Northern carpetbaggers and why reconstruction failed.

Researches the character of slavery, new freedom and racial relationships on both African-Americans and whites of the Reconstruction period.

This book tells the story of the Reconstruction era in the words of the people who lived and shaped it and the laws that contributed to it.

Explores the development of the United States from 1865 to 1890, focusing on the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.

Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.

Offers a detailed analysis of the Civil War siege at Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and explores how the battle influenced the legacies of race and slavery that played out over the decades that followed.

A comprehensive history of the decades surrounding the presidency of Abraham Lincoln from the 1840s to 1900 that encompasses Lincoln's legacy of freedom for all.

Features firsthand accounts from white and African-American republicans that describe how American politicians fought amongst themselves in Washington and how the government battled against industrialists after the end of the Civil War.

Depicts the post-war South and the Reconstruction period which failed to free the newly liberated blacks from white racism and describes the simultaneous migration and settling of the Old West which ultimately left thousands of Native Americans dispossessed and segregated. Includes color illustrations, maps, and photos and also presents a chronology, a timeline, a glossary, and an index.