The Civil War and ReconstructionPaperback, 30 November 2007

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