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A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction Blackwell, 2005) online; Grow, Matthew. "The shadow of the civil war: A historiography of civil war memory." American Nineteenth Century History 4.2 (2003): 77-103. Neely Jr, Mark E. "Lincoln, slavery, and the nation." Journal of American History 96.2 (2009): 456-458. online; Towers, Frank.
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner.Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War, which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences of the war's outcome.
For the most part, African Americans received very little to no formal education before the Civil War. Some free blacks in the North managed to become literate. In cities, such a Philadelphia and New York City, they founded literary societies for self-education, as well as some academies for their children.
Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. is an Associate Professor and Research Archivist at the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. [1] He has published several books and articles, contributed book chapters in others' works, as well as delivering lectures and taught workshops and curated exhibitions on the American Civil War, Virginia history, and African American history.
This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd ed.). Longman. ISBN 9780321125583. Goldfield, David (2011). America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781608193745. Guelzo, Allen C. (2012). Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, USA.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (Macmillan, 1937). 791pp; comprehensive old-fashioned political history; Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1877–1896 (1919) online complete; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize; Shannon, Fred A.
Issues of the American Civil War; Origins of the American Civil War; Slavery in the United States; Abolitionism in the United States; Important events and people; Pennsylvania Society for Abolition of Slavery; Northwest Ordinance; Fugitive Slave Act of 1793; Cotton gin; Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions; Gabriel Plot; Vesey Plot; Nat Turner's ...