Reconstruction: How the Peace was Lost

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Grant
Grant 4.50 avg rating — 41,998 ratings
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen 4.13 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox 3.84 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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After Appomattox: How the South Won the War
After Appomattox: How the South Won the War 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction 4.17 avg rating — 779 ratings
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The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace 4.13 avg rating — 6,134 ratings
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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace 3.55 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Reconstruction after the Civil War
Reconstruction after the Civil War 3.94 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy 4.02 avg rating — 3,719 ratings
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The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877 3.92 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction 4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction
Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia
Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Reconstruction
Reconstruction 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Southern Reconstruction
Southern Reconstruction 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion
Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction Era really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans
The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books)
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Reconstruction Presidents
The Reconstruction Presidents 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction 3.89 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings
Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South
Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South 3.40 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath
Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (A History of the South, Vol 8)
The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (A History of the South, Vol 8) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Union Officer in the Reconstruction
A Union Officer in the Reconstruction really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16) 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Volume 6) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)
Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Volume 6) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction
Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,034 ratings
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The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Volume 2) (Race and Culture in the American West Series)
The Seminole Freedmen: A History (Volume 2) (Race and Culture in the American West Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 4.14 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen
Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery 4.24 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass 3.95 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Grant: A Biography
Grant: A Biography 4.05 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy
Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 4.03 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 3.67 avg rating — 522 ratings
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The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia
The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration 4.11 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Brown Thrasher Books)
Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 4.06 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Black Colleges of Atlanta, The (GA) (College History Series)
Black Colleges of Atlanta, The (GA) (College History Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865–1949
The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865–1949 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President
Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President 3.90 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Grant
Grant 4.03 avg rating — 12,932 ratings
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant 4.22 avg rating — 5,938 ratings
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
by: Jim Downs
3.97 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present
Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas
Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction 3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian
Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian 3.59 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes 3.54 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878
Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 3.86 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 4.23 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality
Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Reconstruction: A Concise History
Reconstruction: A Concise History 3.92 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Destruction and Reconstruction
Destruction and Reconstruction 3.90 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction 4.35 avg rating — 157 ratings