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

The first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, telling of the arrival of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi in the aftermath of the Civil War, and of the shady Flem Snopes's swift rise to power in the small town.

Discusses what happened after the American Civil War ended and during the reconstruction period.

A history of the role of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments in the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War.

Presents an overview of post-Civil War America, and describes the events that the United States took to restore the South to the Union, politically and socially, after it seceded. Includes time line and glossary.

After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North.

Documents, photographs, journal excerpts, and other sources recount the experiences of African-Americans from the tumultuous Civil War years through the Reconstruction era that followed.

Discusses various aspects of the American Civil War, covering slavery, abolitionism, secession, politics, and details of the land and naval war, including specific battles and military and non-military leaders, and examines the Reconstruction era.

A study of President Johnson's public life and achievements as the man who succeeded Lincoln to the presidency in a time of political upheaval.

Uses documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Reconstruction, as the government and people worked to recover from the Civil War.