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

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

From oligarchy to republicanism

the great task of reconstruction
2017
"The key to understanding the antebellum South and the Civil War is not slavery per se, but the anti-republican ethos that permeated the beliefs, habits, and way of life of the Southern Oligarchy and set them at odds with not only Northerners, but middle class, poor, and enslaved Southerners as well.".

The book of lost friends

a novel
2021
"[Tells the] dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives"--Provided by publisher.

Fighting chance

the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America
2011
Discusses the falling-out between women's and African-American suffrage advocates during the Reconstruction era, examining the political culture in the United States during the nineteenth century, and describing how local Republicans sought to defeat both causes by setting the groups against each other.

Reconstruction

2020
Presents information regarding the Reconstruction years of 1866 to 1876, focusing on events and figures from African American history. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Reconstruction

Presents information regarding the Reconstruction years of 1866 to 1876, focusing on events and figures from African American history.

Dark sky rising

Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow
2019
American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks at America's history from 1861 to 1915, focusing on the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African-American resilience in times of racial unrest and drawing parallels to them with the early twenty-first century in the United States.

Lincoln's autocrat

the life of Edwin Stanton
2015
A biography of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction, offering a detailed examination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy.

The angry scar

the story of reconstruction
1974

Civil War aftermath and reconstruction

2017
"Examines the period following the Civil War, in which the nation's leadership, former slaves, and veterans of the conflict grappled with the changes of the postwar era."--Provided by publisher.

An illustrated history of the Civil War

the conflict that defined the United States
2020
"[Provides an illustrated history of the Civil War that] brings to life the realities of the war and the people who lived through it. It explains how the politics around slavery led to an unbridgeable divide between North and South and examines the strategies that led to the Union's eventual victory in 1865"--Amazon.

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