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Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1150L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Explores the Reconstruction period in the South of the United States after the Civil War, covering what new laws were passed and what life was like for newly freed African Americans. Includes a glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
xxiv, 595, xxxix pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The second volume of David Herbert Donald's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of the most compelling senator of the Civil War era In the enthralling sequel to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines the life of the Massachusetts legislator from 1860 to his death in 1874. As a leader of the Radical Republicans, Sumner made the abolition of slavery his primary legislative focus-yet opposed the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 690 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals" was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by radical Republicans in Congress, who wanted to punish the defeated South. When Johnson's policies placated the rebels at the expense of the black freed men, radicals in the House impeached him for trying to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Even William Seward, Lincoln's closest ally in his cabinet,...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 175 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and at the same time, how former slaves could be brought into the life of the country.
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
x, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only t
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of the Reconstruction years, which marked the United States' most progressive moment prior to the Civil Rights movement, tells the stories of the African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality after the Civil War.