1865-1898

In the 1890s, struggling to support himself and his invalid father among the gangs on New York's Lower East Side, thirteen-year-old Sam Glodsky joins mobster Monk Eastman and his own archenemy, Izzy Fink, in a plot to rescue Eastman's prize racing pigeon from a quarantined steamship.

In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers.

Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a street-wise gang member in 1890s New York City, until a con man introduces him to a wealthy woman who is seeking her long-lost nephew and Chipper must decide where his loyalties lie.

Contains a selection of primary source documents that provides insight into the period of post-Civil War reconstruction in America, discussing the problems of freed slaves, carpetbaggers, the KKK, and other topics.

With the Civil War ended and Reconstruction begun, fifteen-year-old Billy resolves to make the dangerous and challenging journey West in search of real fortune--his true father.

Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.

A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.

Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.

Based on first-person accounts, and illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book portrays a period of brutal repression--and surprising progress--as former enemies struggled to remake a society.

Presents an overview of post-Civil War America, discussing the events and challenges that marked the Reconstruction which began after the Civil War in 1863 and ended in 1877.