Books on Topic: 'Reconstruction'

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas Dixo...

The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Reconstruction trilogy, and was followed by Th...

The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishes in 1898 w...

This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the...

The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several...

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

The Book of Ezra, as interpreted through Young's Literal Translation (YLT), details the return of Israelites from Babylonian exile. It follows two dis...

This comprehensive textbook, written by prominent historian Charles A. Beard, provides a detailed account of American history from its colonial beginn...

Nehemiah tells the story of how a Jewish official named Nehemiah, who served in the Persian court, returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the city's walls a...

Set against the backdrop of the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre, The Marrow of Tradition is a powerful and unflinching exploration of the dee...

Charles W. Chesnutt's *The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line* explores the complex social realities of the post-Reconstruction Sou...

Owen Wister's concise biography of Ulysses S. Grant delves into the life and career of the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War...

Charles Anderson Dana's "Recollections of the Civil War" offers a firsthand account of the conflict from the perspective of a key figure in the Union...

An anti-slavery novel which follows the life of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passes as white. When her racial identity is discovered...

'Colonel's Dream' by Charles Waddell Chesnutt delves into the harsh realities of Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South. It paints a bleak picture...

Double Falsehood is a play by Lewis Theobald, believed to be a reconstruction of a lost play by Shakespeare and Fletcher, drawing inspiration from Cer...

The Tree of Appomattox is the concluding volume in Joseph A. Altsheler's series of historical novels about the American Civil War. The novel follows t...

Traitor, the final installment in Thomas Dixon Jr.'s trilogy, takes place in North Carolina during the Reconstruction era, specifically between 1870 a...

This collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, is representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift ideology." These...

This work presents General William Tecumseh Sherman's reflections on his experiences and observations during the American Civil War. It offers insight...

George Cary Eggleston's 'Rebel's Recollections' is a personal account of the American Civil War from a Confederate perspective. The book begins with a...

This book compiles two diaries kept by young women, Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, during the final months of the Civil War in Sout...