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1865-1898

Reconstruction and Reaction

Michael Golay

Covers African-American advancements during the period of the federal government's management of the defeated Southern states.

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Reconstruction

Linda R. Wade

Looks at the period known as Reconstruction which followed the Civil War, and the passing of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution.

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Reconstruction

Contains a selection of primary source documents that provides insight into the period of post-Civil War reconstruction in America, discussing the problems of freed slaves, carpetbaggers, the KKK, and

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Reconstruction and Reform

Joy Hakim

This is a history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.

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An Age of Extremes

Joy Hakim

This book covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.

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Stranded, a Story of New York in 1875

Peter Burchard

Recounts the fortunes of a Scottish youth, abandoned when his ship sails without him, in the Fourth Ward slums of lower Manhattan during a period when political gangs ruled the city through threats,

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