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Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Collects accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources to provide a first-person perspective on the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves&; searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century. With Lincoln’s assassination, his zteam of rivals,y in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s phrase, was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed - and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea...
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