First there was the Civil War, which ended in 1865, and then there was the postwar era of Reconstruction, which is generally said to have ended in 1877. The war concluded with the surrender of the ...

That the work of Reconstruction continued well after 1877 is illustrated by the life of Ida B. Wells, a woman who witnessed the death of slavery and fought against the beginning of Jim Crow.

If Andrews does not believe that the restoration of white-supremacist rule in the postbellum South would have been preferable to Reconstruction — and/or that its ultimate restoration in 1877 was ...

Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, Reconstruction tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans — Southern and Northern, white and black — as they struggle to shape new ...

The Reconstruction years of 1865 to 1877 saw newly freed slaves in the South voting and holding office for the first time. The pre-eminent authority on the period, ...

Cause: Reconstruction America, 1863-1877. by Tonya Bolden ages 12 and older. March 19, 2006 at 12:00 a.m. EST. If American history is your "thing," this retelling of the post-Civil War period ...

Reconstruction | Part 2, Hour 1. Episode 3 | 55m 53s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Hour three of the series examines the years 1877-1896. Hour three of the series examines the years 1877-1896, a ...

Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 - Eric Foner ... There's a really valuable discussion by Noel Ignatiev about this book and W.E.B Du Bois's book about the Reconstruction ...

Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution ...

By 1877, around 2,000 black men had held public offices, ranging from justice of the peace to senator. Most, Foner wrote in a directory of these leaders called “Freedom’s Lawmakers” (1993 ...