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Ordeal by fire
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James M. McPherson |
The Civil War is the central event in the American historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 preserved this creation from destr… |
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Civil War ends
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Corinne J. Naden |
Describes the aftermath of the Civil War, including the assassination of Lincoln, Reconstruction, and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. |
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The Civil War and Reconstruction
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Stuart A. Kallen |
Scans Black history from the earliest struggles for allowing free states to enter the union to Reconstruction and white resistance, profiles such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Bo… |
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Fires of jubilee
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Alison Hart |
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, a teenage former slave is determined to find the truth about the disappearance of her parents. She's about to discover that, like freedom, the truth is harder to … |
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A ruined land
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Michael Golay |
In a fascinating approach that allows the voices of those touched by the Civil War to speak for themselves, gifted writer Michael Golay shows the impact of victory and defeat on the ordinary American… |
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Bury me not in a land of slaves
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Joyce Hansen |
An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources. |
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Forty acres and maybe a mule
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Harriette Robinet |
Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises. |
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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction
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Harrison, Robert |
"Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans"--
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Ellen's broom
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Kelly Starling Lyons |
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage b… |
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Out from this place
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Joyce Hansen |
A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves. |
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Hans L. Trefousse |
This book is a biography of a leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000. The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and S… |
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Odd men out
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Matt Betts |
The Civil War has ended but not because the South surrendered, instead it's on hold while both sides face a new enemy-the chewers, dead men who've come back to life. Cyrus Joseph Spencer didn't fight… |
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The boy in his winter
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Norman Lock |
"Huck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi from o… |
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A History of US
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Joy Hakim |
Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America, 1865-1890 is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring acro… |
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A History of US
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Joy Hakim |
Reconstructing America looks at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons are roaring across the country. New cities are springing up, and a new and different American … |
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Southern Reconstruction
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Philip Leigh |
"The Reconstruction Era--the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union--remains, as historian Eric Foner sugge… |
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The existing conflict between republican government and southern oligarchy
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Green B. Raum |
479 p. 23 cm |
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Deo Vindice
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Michael A. Jefferson |
"Deo Vindice (pronounced dayo-vin-dee-chee):The Resurrection, is a story of one man's obsession to right the wrongs of a horrible racial injustice by empowering its victims to take matters into their… |
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A perilous proposal
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Michael R. Phillips |
Two years have passed since the conclusion of the Shenandoah Sisters series, and Katie and Mayme are young women with big dreams, running Rosewood with the help of their two uncles and their friends … |
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Menace on the mountain
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M. A. Hancock |
In the last days of the Civil War, a thirteen-year-old North Carolina boy spares the life of a Yankee soldier who repays the favor to the boy's family during the trying days of the Reconstruction. |
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