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

Chronicles the history of the Reconstruction that took place in the South in the years after the Civil War and discusses how society was affected by the rebuilding.

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.

Text and accompanying photographs recount the life and times of Robert Smalls, the first slave to become a widely known Civil War hero.

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.

Traces the history of Reconstruction, from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877, when federal troops were removed from the South.

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.