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THE EXHIBITION INCLUDED CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WHO RECEIVED THE MEDAL ... WHICH RECONSTRUCTION WAS. GATES JR: IF WE DEFINE RECONSTRUCTION AS THE PROCESS BY WHICH OUR COUNTRY TRIED TO COME TO TERMS ...

RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR is available to stream on pbs.org ... BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT SOUTHERN STATES ARE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DEFINE EX-SLAVES AS NOT CITIZENS.

Born in the aftermath of the bloody Civil War, Reconstruction was America's attempt to make good on its founding promise of civil and political equality. The Reconstruction years of 1865 to 1877 ...

The bitterly contested Reconstruction policies ... Confederates in the wake of this civil war, though millions had indeed committed such offenses by any legal definition. Confederate President ...

In her powerful and deeply moving history of the Reconstruction era, Williams, an associate professor of history at Wayne State University, upends the narrative of the post-Civil War era as a ...

Did these provisions transfer the authority to define citizens’ rights ... book to show how these competing views of Reconstruction and the Civil War amendments have shaped incompatible ...

Topics covered may include the antislavery movement, black activism, secession, the war and reasons for U.S. victory, and the changes in American society and politics during Reconstruction.