Reconstruction - A Reference Guide

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. Reconstruction: A Reference Guide covers the entire period of Reconstruction (1863-1877) with a special emphasis on the struggle for social and political equality in the post-Civil War South. The book''s analytical essays, selection of primary documents, and biographies of key participants give readers an understanding of social, political, and economic changes that occurred during this important period as well as provide opportunities to explore more specific issues and debates. Synthesizing and building on the work of recent scholars, the book documents how the central struggles of Reconstruction revolved around the meaning of freedom for former slaves. The essays describe how a new and sometimes deadly conflict over equal rights and racial justice raged throughout the South in the post-Civil War period and generated a constitutional crisis in the nation''s capital as former slaves created alliances with sympathetic whites and sought to build a biracial democracy in the former Confederacy. Readers will not only understand the facts and events of the period, but will also be introduced to historical sources and key interpretive debates.>

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Paul E. Teed, Melissa Ladd Teed

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• Authors: Melissa Teed, Melissa Ladd Teed, Paul Teed, Paul E Teed, Paul E. Teed, Paul E./ Teed Teed, Paul Edward Teed, Teed Melissa Ladd, Teed Paul E.
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781610695329
• ISBN: 978-1-61069-532-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Guides to Historic Events in A; Guides to Historic Events in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas