Primary Sources: Reconstruction (After U.S. Civil War): General

Access crucial documents covering the lives of African Americans in the years following the Civil War. This collection covers many topical categories such as Reconstruction by state; works by African-American writers on race, slavery, and civil rights; the portrayal of African Americans in the Arts; early histories of the Civil War and slavery; and others. This archive contains varied perspectives on subjects including but not limited to: African-American Activism; Causes of the Civil War; Political Restoration of the South; Legal Status of African Americans; Congress and Radical Reconstruction; Discrimination and Segregation; Theorizing the Origins of Race; Minstrel Show Music, Scripts, etc.; Education in the South; African-Americans in Office; Back-to-Africa Movement; Suffrage/Right to Vote; Lynchings and Massacres; And on organizations such as: Baptist Church; Freedmen's Bureau; Ku Klux Klan; Presbyterian Church; The Confederacy; Republican Party

• More than 150 newspapers, including major titles from every region of the U.S.
• Approximately 50,000 government documents and 4,000 rare broadsides and pieces of ephemera
• Extensive local and national coverage of American culture, politics and society during this tumultuous period

Indexes and electronically reproduces Harper's Weekly (1857-1877).