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

The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing

Few periods in American history are more consequential but less understood than Reconstruction, the tumultuous twelve years after Appomattox, when the battered nation sought to reconstitute itself and confront the legacy of two centuries of slavery.

This anthology brings together more than one hundred contemporary letters, diary entries, interviews, testimonies, and articles by...