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The Reconstruction Era Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877
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Donna L. Dickerson
Book Code: GR2094
ISBN: 0-313-32094-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32094-1
456 pages, N/A
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: As the sole purveyors of news and opinion, Reconstruction-era newspapers bent and spindled American public opinion with little regard for independent journalism and great regard for party politics. In other words, the newspapers of the Reconstruction era served political rather than social needs. The issues facing the nation were momentous, and opinions on how to deal with the problems were vigorously presented and defended. Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country's print media, this book reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion from 1865 to 1877. Issues such as civil rights, constitutional amendments, a presidential impeachment, Indian wars, immigration, and political corruption dominated the newspapers and gave journalists opportunities to advance their agendas. Each of the 30 chapters of this book introduces an event or issue and includes news articles representing opposing sides of the issue as it affected Americans. Readers can use the introductory essays and primary source documents to understand how newspapers and magazines presented vital events and issues to Americans of the day. This invaluable reference source presents hard-to-find opinions in the words of those who wrote them.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction: Newspapers During Reconstruction
  • The First Year: Expressions of Hope and Concern, 1865
  • Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction Plan, 1865-1866
  • The Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872
  • Black Codes, 1865
  • Seating the South's Congressional Delegation, 1865
  • President Johnson v. Radical Congress, 1866
  • Freedmen's Bureau Act, 1866
  • Civil Right Act of 1866
  • Black Suffrage: Before the Vote, 1865-1866
  • Fourteenth Amendment, 1867
  • New Orleans Riot, 1866
  • Congressional Reconstruction, 1867
  • Black Suffrage: The First Vote, 1867
  • The Alaska Purchase, 1867
  • Impeachment of President Johnson, 1868
  • Creating the Carpetbagger Myth, 1867-1869
  • The Battle for Woman Suffrage, 1867-1870
  • Indian Policy in the West, 1867-1876
  • Violence and the Ku Klux Klan, 1867-1872
  • Sunday Liquor Laws, 1867-1873
  • Mormons and Polygamy, 1870-1876
  • Black Suffrage: The Fifteenth Amendment and Beyond, 1869-1877
  • Chinese Immigration, 1867-1872
  • Boss Tweed and New York Ring, 1870-1873
  • Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872-1873
  • The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • The Hamburg Riot, 1876
  • The Compromised Election of 1876
  • End of Reconstruction, 1877
LC Card Number: 2003048827
LCC Class: E668
Dewey Class: 973
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