TY  - BOOK
AU  - Egerton,Douglas R.
TI  - The wars of Reconstruction: the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era 
SN  - 9781608195664
AV  - E668 .E35 2013
U1  - 973.8 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1865-1877
KW  - Race relations
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": war's end, activism's beginning -- "All de land belongs to de yankees now": the Freedmen's Bureau -- "The Lord has sent us books and teachers": missionaries and community formation -- "We will remember our friends, and will not forget our enemies": black codes and black conventions -- "Andrew Johnson is but one man": the Progressive Alliance coalesces -- "We knows that much better than you do": voting rights and political service -- "An absolute massacre": white violence and the end of Reconstruction in the South -- "We shall be recognized as men": the Reconstruction Era in memory -- Epilogue: the spirit of freedom monument
ER  -