reconstruction (1865-1876)

A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.

Discusses the successes and failures of Reconstruction in the years following the Civil War.

The fifth volume of his multi-volume history of the United States from 1861 to 1874.

A critical study of his administration assessing his Reconstruction program, and economic, foreign relations, and Indian policies.

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

A history of the Civil War examining social, economic, and military aspects of the war and of Reconstruction.

Virginia records the events of her life as her family moves to New York City in the aftermath of the Civil War, and she begins to dream of a life in the theater.

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.

Presents biographical profiles of sixteen men and women, seven of them African-American, who struggled to uphold the ideals of Reconstruction, including Union Army general Samuel Chapman Armstrong, educator Charlotte Forten Grimke, and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Examines the divisions between North and South between 1860 and 1865 and discusses the institution of slavery, secession, major events of the Civil War, Reconstruction, assassination of President Lincoln, and important people of the period.