Reconstruction Books


The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Best Price: $16.10 This book is heartbreaking; and a literary and historical tour de force. A brilliant rendition...	The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox Best Price: $6.70 This is a most interesting book about the period of reconstruction. The carpetbaggers did not...	A Short History of Reconstruction Best Price: $8.44 A truly fascinating time in American history, the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) is not...	Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 Best Price: $19.00 My dictionary defines "throe" as "violent pang, anguish, calamity." In the...	Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America) Best Price: $16.94 Well written history is a rare treat, and rarer still is a history by one who lived through it....



Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Best Price: $10.50 This exhaustive, comprehensive and completely detailed masterpiece is a complete...	Stealing Lincoln's Body Best Price: $12.49 You can tell by the title that this is going to be a weird book, especially since it's...	The Strange Career of Jim Crow Best Price: $8.99 C. Vann Woodward's "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" remains one of the most important...	The Populist Vision Best Price: $24.33 I gave this as a gift to my 19 year old son. He really enjoyed the read.	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $7.50 Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,...



Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 Best Price: $27.96 Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 by Jerome Greene is, for aficionados of the...	The Strange Career of Jim Crow Best Price: $11.67 C. Vann Woodward's "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" remains one of the most important...	The Populist Vision Best Price: $22.95 I gave this as a gift to my 19 year old son. He really enjoyed the read.	American History, 1877 to the Present (Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys) Best Price: $4.66 The only way this book helped was that it made me familiar with major things that happened...	Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (The Everyday Life in America Series, Vol. 4) Best Price: $6.49 The book overviews the Victorian period, touching on a vast array of topics that would have...

The Search for Order, 1877-1920 Best Price: $8.65 by trying to read this book. Quoting another reviewer, the author is "often guilty of...	Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era Best Price: $10.00 Historians write with a slant. Sometimes it's hard to detect, but in this book it screams out...	Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Women in the West) Best Price: $28.76 (Really 3.5 stars) I'm surprised no one has reviewed this book yet so I thought I'd put down...	Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction Best Price: $7.47 It is a tough subject to discuss in class, but this book is a very helpful. Our curriculum...	Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction Best Price: $7.47 It is a tough subject to discuss in class, but this book is a very helpful. Our curriculum...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $7.99 Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,...	Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer Best Price: $12.41 So far I have only read the 18 page introduction. Based on that I find the topic to be very...	Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (Eminent Lives) Best Price: $2.50 Factually deficient. Some errors have been cited in earlier reviews here on Amazon. I will only...	Ulysses S. Grant (The American Presidents) Best Price: $6.02 Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but there's a story there, as summarized in this...	Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined Best Price: $12.91 The book is an interesting read, however his conclusions that there was no "Last...

The Civil War and Reconstruction (DANTES Subject Standardized Tests: Questions and Answers) Best Price: $23.95 I have really studied the civil war and was using this book as a last minute test prep. I have...	I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War Best Price: $11.12 A tremendous amount of study involved; Beal received help from National Park services, College...	The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Best Price: $68.47 February is Black History Month Back in the days of my personal `pre-history' the...	Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 Best Price: $20.72 If you are not a Robert Utley fan you soon will be. This second in a two volume series, Utley...	Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand (Campaign) Best Price: $8.99 I bought a copy of this, my 3rd or 4th book on the subject, because of the rave comments on the...

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation Best Price: $10.00 This excellent study of nineteenth-century American households brings Hannah Arendt's assessment...	Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians Best Price: $7.49 James Welch, a Blackfeet/Gros Ventre novelist, turns his hand to history after writing a screen...	Homework Helpers: U.S. History (1865-present): From Reconstruction Through the Dawn of the 21st Century (Homework Helpers) Best Price: $8.96 Homework Helpers: U.S. History (1865-Present) is one of the latest books in the popular...	The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (Cornell Paperbacks) Best Price: $14.74 "The New Empire" is a classic of "revisionist" diplomatic history. ...	Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) Best Price: $14.95 The author approaches her subject from an interesting perspective. So-called masculine myths...

I Fought With Custer: The Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn Best Price: $5.40 It is difficult to really rate a work like this. This is the story of Charles Windolph, the...	No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 Best Price: $28.20 No Place of Grace, by T. J. Jackson Lears, is an interesting commentary on the movements and...	The American Indian Wars 1860-1890 (Men at Arms Series, 63) Best Price: $10.24 As a re-enactor of 19th century military personnel, the pictures in this book are a great guide...	America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s Best Price: $23.89 The Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s, was one of the most important periods in...	The Civil War and Reconstruction (DANTES Subject Standardized Tests: Questions and Answers) Best Price: $23.95 I have really studied the civil war and was using this book as a last minute test prep. I have...

Prelude to the Century, 1870-1900 (Our American Century) Best Price: $3.95 The editors of Time-Life Books have done a super job in putting together a comprehensive look at...	America in the Gilded Age: Third Edition Best Price: $15.00 This is the best single volume covering these important yet forgotten years of American history...	A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era Best Price: $5.60 Steven Diner's A Very Different Age is a social history of the common man during the...	Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 Best Price: $7.00 Rutherford Hayes was nominated on the seventh ballot at a hotly contested Republican convention...	One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 Best Price: $19.96

Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First BlackCongressmen Best Price: $19.80 An award-winning historian offers a sweeping new look at the tragic era of Reconstruction. In...	The American Indian Wars 1860-1890 (Men at Arms Series, 63) Best Price: $10.23 As a re-enactor of 19th century military personnel, the pictures in this book are a great guide...	An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War (Texas a & M University Military History Series) Best Price: $15.00 Throughout American military history, the interactions and tensions between the regular Army,...	The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant) Best Price: $11.95 Sadly Julia Dent Grant is little remembered in history today and in her lifetime this remarkable...	Moon of Popping Trees Best Price: $4.99 This book is clearly the best researched and objectively written work ever produced on the,...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The John Harvard Library) Best Price: $4.22 As a political junkie, I watch several news and commentary television shows. On the day that...	San Juan Hill 1898: America's Emergence as a World Power (Campaign) Best Price: $2.59 Great book unless his ones involving Pirates. Nicely written. Well illustrated.	Civil War and Reconstruction Best Price: $40.84 Students of history would do well to begin their studies of the U.S. Civil War by reading this...	The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life) Best Price: $16.40 Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the...	Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 Best Price: $14.75 This is a classic, and worth the time to read. The parallels with the present era are obvious...

The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction Best Price: $88.88 Wow, am I really the first person to review this book? Where to begin. I guess I'll keep it...	The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 Best Price: $8.75	They Died With Custer: Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn Best Price: $124.88 Among all of the books I have on the archeaology of the Little Bighorn, my library would not be...

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