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The Reconstruction Era Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877
Donna L. Dickerson
ISBN: 0-313-32094-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32094-1
456 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £53.95)
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
About the Author: DONNA L.DICKERSON is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication at the University of Texas, Tyler.
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