Product Description: Defining Documents in American History: The Reconstruction Era offers in-depth critical analysis of 20 primary source documents. Articles begin by introducing readers to the document's historical context, followed by a description of the author's life and

Product Description: American Eras: Primary Sources is a fascinating, student-friendly reference that's patterned after the Gale's award-winning American Decades: Primary Sources series. Like its predecessor, each volume of American Eras: Primary Sources offers full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from each era...read more

Product Description: The American Nation: Primary Sources resumes the narrative begun in its companion volume, The American Republic which covered the first eight decades of U.S. history, ending at the onset of the Civil War. The American Nation continues the story through America’s entrance into World War II...read more

Product Description: This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods. Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879 Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate...read more

The Confederate Experience Reader provides students and professors with the essential materials needed to understand and appreciate the major issues confronting the Southern Republic's brief existence during the American Civil War. This anthology covers the full history of the Confederate experience including the origins of the antebellum South, the rise of southern nationalism, the 1860 election and the subsequent Secession Crisis, the military conflict, and Reconstruction. Drawing from a full range of primary writings that describe the experience of living in the Southern Republic in vivid detail, as well as a careful selection of secondary works by prominent scholars in the field of confederate history, The Confederate Experience Reader allows students to situate the Confederate experience within the larger context of Southern and American history.

Product Description: After the Civil War, the southern states experienced a decline in the labor force, particularly those needed to work the fields. The South gathered together to recruit immigrants, foreign as well as domestic. This book examines these efforts focusing on major southern immigration conventions and their objectives and accomplishments...read more

President Johnson's failure to pursue an aggressive Reconstruction policy incited Congress to supplant his authority by establishing the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, which drafted the Civil Rights Act (1866), the Reconstruction Act (1867) and the Fourteenth Amendment (1868), which contains the important and oft-debated "due process" clause. Due to a series of mishaps the committee's journal was never printed by the government. Brought home by Senator William Pitt Fessenden, one of the committee's members, it remained in his family until it was sold at auction. It was finally acquired by Columbia University, where it remains today. Kendrick offers the complete text of the journal (166 pages) and an extensive history of the committee's work. Published originally in the Columbia University series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, this work is cited frequently in the literature on Reconstruction. It is a primary reference, for example, in Raould Berger's landmark study Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment (1977). Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1914.

Presents varying opinions about the history of reconstruction in the United States. (view table of contents)

Provides a biographical and documentary portrait of the twenty-two African American legislators who served the United States in Congress between 1870 and 1901. (view table of contents)

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Participants and historians express constrasting views of the purpose of Reconstruction, moderate and radical approaches, the role of Blacks in society, the end of the era, and reasons why it failed

Product Description: This updated edition explores the Reconstruction with emphasis on the racial problems of the period, the failure of the radicals to gain control, and the legacy of the constitutional amendments of the time.

Product Description: VOICES FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION YEARS, 1865-1877 is a collection of twenty-seven first-hand accounts from those who lived through this turbulent period in American history. Newspaper articles, personal letters, and diary entries bring the reader into direct contact with some of the Americans who were deeply affected by the Reconstruction era...read more

Product Description: Thaddeus Stevens has been called “the greatest dictator Congress ever had,” a man who in 1867 held more political power than any man in the nation, including the president.  In his day Stevens grappled with many of the issues that confront us today: racial and economic equality, affirmative action, and equal access to education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Hailed as “the most important congressman in the House of Representatives during the Civil War” and still honored in Pennsylvania as the father of its public school system, Thaddeus Stevens grappled in his day with many of the issues that confront us today: racial and economic equality, affirmative action, and equal access to education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Excerpts from writing by participants describe Reconstruction, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Grant administration, economic developments, and other events of the times