Use this rich archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in US history and its legacy today.
Use this rich archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in US history and its legacy today.
Students consider how US history books, films, and other works of popular culture have misrepresented the history of the Reconstruction era. t
Students examine how freed people in the United States sought to define freedom after Emancipation.
Through a video-based activity, students explore how Radical Reconstruction changed the nature of democracy in the South.
Through a video-based activity, students examine America’s struggle for a stronger democracy during Reconstruction and today.
Students learn about President Andrew Johnson and the Congressional Republican's conflicting visions of how to rebuild the nation after the Civil War.
Students explore the ways that Emancipation and Radical Reconstruction altered the lives of many Americans.
By examining periods of violence during the Reconstruction era, students learn about the potential backlash to political and social change.
The Black president of Bolton, MS's Republican Club writes Governor Ames asking for protection.
Northerner Caroline Bartlett White celebrates the Union’s victory and the end of the Civil War.
In Virginia in the 1620s, slavery and indentured servitude existed, but there were both white and black servants and slaves. No one was a slave for life; rather, many immigrants to North America agreed to work for a planter for a specific period of time in exchange for their passage to the New World and food and shelter once they arrived. In 1622, a black indentured servant named Anthony Johnson appeared in the historical record. Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith tell his story.
The following seven tables provide information about the numbers of African American officeholders in the South during Reconstruction and the backgrounds of those officeholders.