Providing an exciting narrative of Reconstruction based on current scholarship, historical sources, as well as interpretive essays on special topics, this book offers real insight into a controversial and critical period in American history.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
List of Illustrations.
Series Foreword.
Preface.
Chronology.
Prologue: Slavery, War, and Emancipation.
1: Wartime Experiments and the Meaning of Freedom.
2: Presidential Reconstruction: The Emerging Conflict.
3: Toward Radical Reconstruction.
4: Congressional Reconstruction at High Tide.
5: Reconstruction in the States.
6: The Defeat of Reconstruction.
Analytical Essays.
7: Counterfactual Essay: Would Reconstruction Have Been Different If Lincoln Had Lived?.
8: Defining Moments Essay: How Did the Passage of the Southern Black Codes Change the Direction of Reconstruction?.
9: Document Analysis Essay: The Fourteenth Amendment.
10: Perspectives Essay: How Radical Was Radical Reconstruction?.
Biographical Essays.
11: Adelbert Ames (1835–1933).
12: Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906).
13: William G. Brownlow (1805–1877).
14: Blanche K. Bruce (1841–1898).
15: Richard “Daddy” Cain (1825–1887).
16: Frederick Douglass (1818–1895).
17: Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885).
18: Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914).
19: Wade Hampton III (1818–1902).
20: Gen. Oliver O. Howard (1830–1909).
21: Andrew Johnson (1808–1875).
22: Lucius Quintus Lamar (1825–1896).
23: P. B. S. Pinchback (1837–1921).
24: Hiram Revels (1827–1901).
25: Carl Schurz (1829–1906).
26: Philip Sheridan (1831–1888).
27: Robert Smalls (1839–1915).
28: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902).
29: Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868).
30: Charles Sumner (1811–1874).
31: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834–1907).
32: Albion Tourgée (1838–1905).
33: Laura Towne (1825–1901).
Primary Documents.
34: Defining Freedom.
35: The Thirteenth Amendment.
36: Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the People of the United States.
