Reconstruction

In the history of the United States, "Reconstruction" was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the breakaway Confederate States of America|Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America.

External links

• Wikibooks: Reconstruction (1865-1877)
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War 2004 PBS film (180min) & transcript, documenting the Reconstruction era's terrorism against blacks & carpetbaggers. Exposes northern discomfort with black power -- which fundamentally reinstated much (but not all) of slavery during Reconstruction -- for an additional 100 years until the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
• Reconstruction Act March 2, 1867
• Reconstruction Act March 23, 1867
• Reconstruction Act July 19, 1867
• Reconstruction Act March 11, 1868
• "Reconstructing the Poetry of John Willis Menard" by Gilbert Wesley Purdy. Book review/essay with considerable historical information about the Reconstruction South.
• Explore an in-depth timeline of Reconstruction