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History Now Essay

Reconstruction and the Battle for Woman Suffrage

Ellen DuBois

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The origins of the American women’s suffrage movement are commonly dated from the public protest meeting held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. At that historic meeting, the right of women to join with men in the privileges and...

Appears in:

7 | Women's Suffrage Spring 2006

Classroom Resources

Reconstruction | Elementary Curriculum

Elementary Curriculum: Reconstruction Find lesson plans, student activity sheets, interactive resources, classroom videos, and free professional development resources to expand your knowledge of Reconstruction. Image: Frederick Dielman, “Celebration...

Interactive

Timeline: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877

GLC07451

Collection Item

to unknown recipient re: reconstruction in New Orleans

1866/01/29

Parsons, Lewis B., fl. 1866

"It is a bad place-a hard set to deal with; men full of corruption...the Angel Gabriel could not avoid being villanously traduced."

GLC07451

History Now Essay

A Right Deferred: African American Voter Suppression after Reconstruction

Marsha J. Tyson Darling

Government and Civics

In the United States, voting is a constitutionally protected right and an essential symbol of meaningful political participation in our nation’s electoral processes of governing. The right to vote and to have one’s vote count toward...

Appears in:

51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Charles Sumner on Reconstruction and the South, 1866

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

By 1865 there were sharp differences of opinion about the rights of freedmen and the governance of the defeated Southern states among political leaders in Congress and the Executive Branch in Washington, DC. Conflict among Republicans...

Collection Item

[Four men work on the reconstruction of a demolished house]

1880 ca.

Photograph of four men working on the reconstruction of a demolished house. Three housing structures are in the background.

GLC06698.05

Program/Event

Traveling Exhibitions | Becoming the United States: Colonial America to Reconstruction

Becoming the US is designed to introduce upper elementary-aged students to the beginnings of American history and the skills involved in primary source analysis. Using items from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, it explores individuals,...

Collection Item

The Unfinished Second Reconstruction, 63rd National Urban League

1973

National Urban League

One pamphlet entitled, "The Unfinished Second Reconstruction, 63rd National Urban League," dated 1973. Item is a conference program that lists related sessions on health, housing, youth activism, and education.

GLC09640.197

Collection Item

Autograph manuscript

Speech or article re: defending Andrew Johnson, discussing Reconstruction

1875 ca.

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Also discusses Lincoln and the Radical Republicans. Reponds to an article in the "Courent" of the 14th which it quotes at length.

GLC05608