reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877)

During the Reconstruction, former slave Gideon Jackson becomes a valued member of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention and helps other freed slaves begin new lives.

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.

Explores the history of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.

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.

Examines the issues that plagued the South as a new social order came to power in the region after the Civil War ended and slavery was outlawed.

Examines important accomplishments and events in the history of African-Americans with a focus on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Includes short biographies of notable men and women, a glossary, a list of related Internet sites, and other resources.

Examines the origins of Reconstruction during the Civil War, explores how African-American and white Southerners responded to defeat and the destruction of slavery, and examines the policies of Reconstruction governments and the reasons for their overthrow.