The Gilder Lehrman Institute. Modules on American History

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.

Recommended Document:

Edwin H. McCaleb, 1865
A former supporter of the Confederacy responds to Lincoln's death, describes conditions in the post-war South, and gives voice to attitudes that would help shape Reconstruction.

Related Documents:

Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen, 1864

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/gulf.html

Startling Revelations from the Department of South Carolina

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/startrev.html

Letter to the Editor of the "Anglo-African"

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/editor.html

Mrs. Emma Falconer

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/emmafal.html

Addresses and Ceremonies at the New Year's Festival to the Freedmen, 1867

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/moulton.html

Call for the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/mott.html

Education Among the Freedmen

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ freedmen/educfree.html

Southern Treatment by the Federal Government

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recontwo/pringle.html

Interview with Mr. William P. Jones, Reagan, Texas

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recontwo/wpjones.html

The Absolute Equality of All Before the Law

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recontwo/wpjones.html

Proceedings of the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recontwo/aera.html

On the Regeneration of the South

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recontwo/address.html

Senators Debate Equal Rights

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recontwo/sumner.html

The Yankee Element of Designing Politicians

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/bradley.html

Throwing Off the Yoke of Carpetbag Government

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/coleman.html

Leroy Dean Discusses Vigilantes in Texas

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/lroydean.html

The Story of Immokalee [Florida]

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/platte.html

The Goodings Describe Reconstruction in South Carolina

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/goodings.html

George Ogden Recalls Reconstruction in the South

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/ogden.html

Judge J.H. Yarborough Recalls the End of the Civil War

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/ recon/yarboro.html

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