Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303)

The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more

“Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street Journal

Few periods in American history are more consequential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appo...