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Andrew Johnson's administration, April 15, 1865-1869

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  • The New South and the Old West 1866-1890by Infobase Publishing

    Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00

    The end of the Civil War brought significant change to the United States. The war had destroyed the South, ushering in an age of rebuilding that created a new South free from slavery and open to progress and industrialization. But much of the promise of the post-war South was lost in the political heat of Reconstruction. At the same time, more people... more...

  • When the War Was Overby Dan T. Carter

    LSU Press 1985; US$ 21.95

    In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if anything, an increased level of violence to the region as local authorities of the former Confederacy were stripped of their power and the returning foot soldiers of the defeated army, hungry... more...

  • Andrew Johnsonby Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

    ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 55.00

    The recent impeachment has sparked a resurgence of interest in Andrew Johnson. In spite of a successful political career spanning five decades, Johnson was one of the most unpopular of all American presidents. This work provides entries covering the people and events relevant to Johnson's life. more...

  • Reconstructionby Claudine L. Ferrell

    ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 73.00

    Few periods in American history have aroused as much debate as the years immediately after the Civil War, those commonly referred to simply as Reconstruction. The victorious North had to determine how to treat the vanquished South and how to make a nation whole once again. The divisive issues of freedom and civil rights became even more complex than... more...

  • Reconstructionby Eric Foner

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 19.99

    This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" ( New Republic ) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war... more...

  • A Short History of Reconstructionby Eric Foner

    HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99

    An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize. more...

  • Impeachedby David O. Stewart

    Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 15.00

    In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Lincoln, bringing the nation to the brink of a second civil war. Enraged to see the freed slaves abandoned to brutal violence at the hands of their former owners, distraught that former rebels threatened to regain control of Southern state governments,... more...

  • Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whitesby Mitchell Snay

    LSU Press 2007; US$ 40.00

    After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues, which began during the war to support the northern effort, spread to the South after the war and mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security.... more...

  • Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstructionby Paul H. Bergeron

    University of Tennessee Press 2011; US$ 49.95

    “Bergeron has written a very original book quite unlike any modern study of Johnson. Bound to create quite a bit of controversy among scholars and Civil War enthusiasts, Bergeron seeks to provide a balanced analysis of this much-vilified figure.” —John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History,... more...

  • A Tour of Reconstructionby J. Matthew Gallman; Anna Dickinson

    The University Press of Kentucky 2011; US$ 35.00

    Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year on the road, delivering lectures on abolitionism, politics, and public affairs, and establishing herself as one of the nation's first celebrities. In... more...