Reconstructing the Nation

1865–1877

HIST 1301 Mini-Lectures on YouTube

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The Beginnings of Reconstruction

 

African Americans Build New Lives After

Emancipation

Freedpeople Explore the Meaning of Freedom

Freedpeople Need Votes and Land

Eric Foner on 1866 and the Birth of Civil Rights

The Drama of Reconstruction Unfolds

President Johnson Versus Congress

Conflict Over The Black Codes

Radical Reconstruction

Radical Reconstruction (Cont.)

 

African Americans Become a Force in Southern Politics

Republican Party Activism in the South

Gary Gallagher on the "Lost Cause"

The End of Reconstruction

Southern Democrats and the Klan “Redeem” the South

Southern Democrats and the Klan “Redeem” the South

Southern Democrats and the Klan “Redeem” the South

The Final Assault on Reconstruction

Hayes v. Tilden & the End of  Reconstruction

Additional Resources:David Bight's Lectures

Civil War and Reconstruction CourseYale University

19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings

20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic

21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction

22. Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President

23. Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor

24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"

25. The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"

26. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

27. Legacies of the Civil War