Reconstruction: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide

Providing an exciting narrative of Reconstruction based on current scholarship, historical sources, as well as interpretive essays on special topics, this book offers real insight into a controversial and critical period in American history.

• Provides readers with an understanding of Reconstruction based on the most recent scholarship and analytical essays that promote critical thinking about important issues of this critical era

• Presents extensive primary source material that allows readers to interpret the period through the eyes of participants as well as dynamic visual images from the period accompanied by explanatory captions

• Contains biographical entries that provide insight into the lives of key people from the period

• Includes an extensive annotated bibliography that encourages readers to explore issues in more depth