An Annotated List of the Most Valuable Online Resources on Reconstruction

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RECONSTRUCTION

• African American Migrations After the Civil War
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html
  This Library of Congress exhibit describes African American migrations out of the South, focusing on the Kansas Exodusters, western homesteading, and migration to Chicago.
• African-American Perspectives
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
  A searchable collection of 300 pamphlets by African Americans mainly focusing on the period 1875 to 1900.
• The Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters
  http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/bryant/
  This collection of letters from Emma Bryant to her husband John, who worked for the Freedmen’s Bureau during the summer of 1873, shed light on marital relationships during the mid-19^th century and on the problems of Reconstruction.
• Finding Precedent: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
  http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/
  This site features more than 200 excerpts from Harper’s Weekly’s coverage of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, supplemented by political cartoons and biographies and portraits of 28 major figures from the trial. The site also contains explanatory material on: Reconstruction Policy:  Radicalism versus Conservatism, Future Control of Congress, The Tenure of Office Act, Personal Considerations Affecting the Vote to Impeach, and the legal, political and Constitutional arguments, used in the impeachment trial.
• "Toward Racial Equality:  Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874."
  http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/
  Articles, illustrations, and cartoons from Harper’s Weekly dealing with slavery and emancipation from the late 1850s into Reconstruction.

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