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Pt 1 Reconstruction websites   Pt 2 Book List from MHS Library Catalog

Part 1

Reconstruction, 1865-1900
Websties to begin your journey

American Heritage.     

[ Serial ]    973 A512  This is a magazine about American history. By using the index online find the volume, issue and year. Read the article online or from the books found in the shelves . A Serial is another name for a magazine.

 Use the American Heritage online index: http://www.AmericanHeritage.com

user: MarshallHSLib      password: mavs

Encyclopedia Britannica

Use Britannica to begin your research to get an overview and common terms related to your       topic http://school.eb.com/                user: mavs      password: mavs

American Memory. Library Of Congress

Primary Documents and links http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Web Sites: Authoritarian and accurate

                Look for sites that URL ends in .edu; .us .gov

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/introduction.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/

PBS – Ken Burns “Civil War” includes images used in the show, many taken in 1865 – esp under the “Ruins” tab on the left http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/cwimages/ruins/index.html



Part 2 Marshall HS Library ->Destiny.marshallisd.com ->Catalog

 The United States to 1865       

973 K91u    Kraus, Michael, 1901-  

  The tragic era; the revolution after Lincoln,     

973.8 B786    Bowers, Claude Gernade, 1879-1958.  

   The road to reunion, 1865-1900,       

                973.8 B922r    Buck, Paul Herman, 1899-  

   Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, 1864-1896       

973.8 C699r 2000    Collier, Christopher, 1930-  

    Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877     

973.8 F673r    Foner, Eric.  

    Reconstruction: after the Civil War.     

                 973.8 F832r    Franklin, John Hope, 1915-  

   Reunion without compromise; the South and Reconstruction: 1865-1868.     

                973.8 P451r    Perman, Michael.  

   Reconstruction : opposing viewpoints    

973.8 R311 1995    Brenda Stalcup, book editor.  

 A southern community in crisis : Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880    

                976.4 C189s   

The American heritage picture history of the Civil War    

R 973.7 A512p    Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978.  

Other books in NonFiction and Reference with the call number

973 United States History – search using the index

Up from slavery     

                B W317    Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.  

   

 Biographies by the person’s last name – Call number - B

 Reconstruction the second Civil War     

   [ Video ]    DVD 973.8 REC    a production of WGBH Boston.  

  Reconstruction       

   [ Video ]    VT 973.8 Rec    United Learning.  

 

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