1. Read: Reconstruction: North and South - Document Overview
2. Read: William A Dunning Explains the Failure of Reconstruction in Terms of Corruption and Failure of Governments (1901)
3. Read: La Wanda Cox Questions Whether Reconstruction Could Have Been Effective (1981)
4. Read: Eric Foner Contends That Reconstruction Did Not Go Far Enough (1983)

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1. View: House Managers for the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson
2. View: Black Suffrage
3. View: The Grand Review of Union Troops in Victory
4. View: The "burned district" of Richmond, Virginia
5. View: According to a former Confederate general, recently freed blacks had "nothing but freedom"
6. View: Andrew Johnson
7. View: Senator Charles Sumner
8. View: Representative Thaddeus Stevens
9. View: Impeachment proceedings and trial of Andrew Johnson
10. View: Cartoon showing "King Andy I" approving the execution of Radical leaders in Congress
11. View: Five of the major black political figures of the Reconstruction period
12. View: Cartoon chiding the Ku Klux Klan and the White League for promoting conditions "worse than slavery"
13. View: The People's Handwriting on the Wall
14. View: Horace Greeley
15. View: A Republican campaign piece from the 1876 election
16. View: President Grant, seated at left, with Mrs. Grant next to him
17. View: Nast cartoon: Reconstruction
18. View: Zuni Pueblo before a dance
19. View: Medicine man
20. View: Frank Leslie's Newspaper
21. View: First reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
22. View: First black voter
23. View: Emancipation rally
24. View: Black students learn on street
25. View: Freedmen's Union Industrial School
26. View: Plenty to Eat and Nothing to Do
27. View: Freed Slave statue
28. View: Young blacks return from work
29. View: Negro suffrage platform
30. View: Houses for sale, 1872
31. View: The Age of Brass, 1869
32. View: Tammany Hall ring, 1871
33. View: Politics makes strange bedfellows

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1. View: Reconstruction, 1865–1877
2. View: Election of 1876

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