• Reconstruction Era Documents
• Reconstruction and its Aftermath
• Opposing Views on Reconstruction
• Reconstruction by Frederick Douglass
• Valley of the Shadow:  Aftermath
This is a part of the Valley of the Shadow Project, and it contains newspapers, property claims, veterans records, letters and diaries, maps and images, and public records for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
• HarpWeek.com
 Harper’s Weekly is really the only consistent, comprehensive,  week-to-week chronological record of what happened world-wide in the last half of the nineteenth century.   Moreover, as stated above, it was perhaps the leading shaper of public opinion in this country,  playing a key role in front-line reporting of the Civil War, the re-election of Lincoln, Grant’s two presidential victories, the overthrow of Boss Tweed, and the first election of Grover Cleveland. Its circulation was more than 100,000 and its readership probably exceeded half a million people.
 Since 1995, up to 12 indexers with advanced degrees have read every word and studied every illustration and cartoon in Harper’s Weekly, and have carefully constructed user-friendly indexes that will guide you in locating information quickly and concisely. The information is presented in an  easy-to-navigate, alphabetical, multi-level structure familiar to scholars, reference librarians and students alike. Descriptive sub-entries will help you determine the relative value of the references by giving you specific information about an entry prior to display. The text of  each weekly issue of Harper's Weekly is available for purchase.  There are, however, well written summaries of the major events that occurred during the time Harper's Weekly was published that are free.
• Race & Place: African American Community Histories
This site is at the Virginia Center for Digital History, and contains primary documents such as: letters, newspaper articles, government documents, slaveowners' wills, documents on blacks in the military, reconstruction and the Freedmen's Bureau  from Augusta County Virginia and Franklin County Pennsylvania.

• American Presidents: Andrew Johnson
• Proclamation declaring the Insurrection at an end
• Impeachment: Andrew Johnson  This is a site at the History Place that contains the articles of impeachment
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
This is a part of the HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly) website.  It contains the full text of original articles out of the Harper's Weekly that dealt with Johnson, his disagreements with Congress,  and the early efforts at Reconstruction from 1865 to 1868

• Thaddeus Stevens Speech of December 18, 1865
• Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866
• The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
• The Thirteenth Amendment
• The Fourteenth Amendment
• The Fifteenth Amendment
• The First Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867

Reconstruction in Alabama
• 1868 Constitution of Alabama
Reconstruction in Arkansas

• Freedman's Bureau Register of Marriages in the Arkadelphia, Arkansas District, 1865-1866
• Arkansas Republican Convention, 1872
Reconstruction in Florida

• Exploring Florida: Reconstruction
Reconstruction in Georgia

• Georgia Reconstruction Chronology
• The Reconstruction of North Georgia
• Reconstruction in Georgia
Reconstruction in Louisiana

• Reconstruction: A State Divided
Reconstruction in Mississippi

• Reconstruction in Mississippi
• Mississippi & Reconstruction
• Mississippi Map, 1873

Reconstruction in Texas

• Texas Governors
Reconstruction in Virginia
• An address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America adopted by a convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, from August 2 to 5, 1865
• Virginia During Reconstruction

• Papers Relating to Crimes Committed By The Ku Klux Klan
"Statements, depositions, and other records submitted by Gov. William W. Holden relating to crimes of the Ku Klux Klan against citizens of North Carolina, 1869 - 1871"
• Discredited Histories of the Ku Klux Klan
• Handbook of Texas Online:Ku Klux Klan
• Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedmen's Bureau


This is an article by W.E.B. Du Bois that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1901
• The Freedmen's Bureau Online
This site has information on black marriages registered with the Freedmen's Bureau from 1865-1867 in Ft. Smith Arkansas, other marriage records in other states, and article on the Freedmen's Bureau by W.E.B. Du Bois, records relating to freedmen's labor, and more.

• Handbook of Texas Online: Black Codes
• The Black Codes in the Former Confederate States
• South Carolina: Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws

• The Exodusters
This is a page part of the PBS series Perspectives on the West
• Afrohoma: Perspectives on a Black State of Oklahoma

• The Disputed Election of 1876
• Map of the Presidential Election of 1876

• Ancestors of George and Hazel Mullins: Reconstruction in Mississippi

• The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000  images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.   The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke  University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most  ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.

• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

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