Reconstruction
the South after the Civil War
01
What the War Left Open
1865
02
The Accidental President
1865
03
Slavery by Another Name
1865–1866
04
The Break
1866
05
The Second Founding
1866–1868
06
The Trial of a President
1867–1868
07
Black Reconstruction
1867–1872
08
Forty Acres, and What Replaced It
1865–1877
09
The Grant Years
1869–1873
10
The Klan Wars
1866–1872
11
The North Loses Interest
1872–1873
12
The Supreme Court Disarms the Constitution
1873–1876
13
Redemption
1873–1875
14
The Mississippi Plan
1875
15
The Bargain
1876–1877
16
The Long Afterlife
1877–today