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Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877

1905

Reynolds, John S. (John Schreiner)., b. 1848

Discusses the provisional government and conditions at the end of the Civil War under military occupation and control. Chapters cover the administration of each governor, including James Lawrence Orr, Robert Kingston Scott, Franklin J. Moses, and...

GLC00267.390

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Frederick Douglass on Lincoln and Reconstruction

Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Dickinson College historian Matthew Pinsker describes changes in Frederick Douglass’s opinion of Abraham Lincoln between Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 and the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, in...

History Now Essay

Reconstruction and the Remaking of the Constitution

Eric Foner

Government and Civics

Reprinted by permission of Eric Foner from the preface to his book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (Norton, 2019) The Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed form the...

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55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019

History Now Essay

Frederick Douglass and the Dawn of Reconstruction

Douglas R. Egerton

Government and Civics

Historians today debate precisely when Reconstruction began, yet in many ways that is a very old discussion. At the time, its goals and focus were disputed, and even what to call the federal policy for the collapsing Confederacy was...

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55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019

History Now Essay

The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History

Eric Foner

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

On June 13, 1866, Thaddeus Stevens, the Republican floor leader in the House of Representatives and the nation’s most prominent Radical Republican, rose to address his Congressional colleagues on the Fourteenth Amendment to the...

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2 | Primary Sources on Slavery Winter 2004

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Frederick Douglass on Lincoln and Reconstruction

Reconstruction and the Remaking of the Constitution

Frederick Douglass and the Dawn of Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History

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