After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate

Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon

From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately follow

From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War

The first history of the efforts and fates of white Republicans during Reconstruction South Carolina Scalawags tells the familiar story of Reconstruction from a