This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods.
Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879
Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them
Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate
About the Author
Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and coauthor (with Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine) of the textbook African American Odyssey, Third Edition (2006). His most recent books include The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 (2003),and American Abolitionists (2001). He is coeditor (with Randall Miller) of the series “Southern Dissent”, and his articles have appeared in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and Journal of the Early Republic.
Features
Provides students with over 60 essential documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879
Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them
Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate
