Examines the Reconstruction period of the south at the end of the Civil War and discusses such issues as the end of the Confederacy, Lincoln's and Johnson's opposing views, the Freedman's Bureau, Lincoln's assassination and the Johnson presidency, and African Americans in the post-war decades.
year: 2004
call number/section: 973.8
subjects: reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), juvenile literature, african americans, history, 1863-1877, 1877-1964, sources, united states, influence, civil war, 1861-1865, juvenile literature, history, 1865-1898, southern states, 1865-1951