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From President Andrew Johnson in 1866 to McKinley’s Presidency, America Under Reconstruction 1866 to 1890 offers firsthand accounts of those who participated in the transformation of America from a fractured nation to whole again. Read the accounts of eyewitnesses and participants who imposed reconstruction and carpet bagging upon the defeated South.
Travel through time to an era of expansion, the purchase of Alaska, the addition of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, Indian War on the Plains, building of the Transcontinental Railroad, assassination of Garfield, invention of the light bulb, the telephone, and the making of America as an industrial age super-power.
Read the words of those who were there, in Volume 9 of PowerThink’s Original Source History Series, AMERICA UNDER RECONSTRUCTION 1866 to 1890.
Included Works:
A Plea for General Amnesty by Carl Schurz
Greenley During His Campaign for President by Greenley
Woman's Rights to the Suffrage by Susan B. Anthony
Sumner and the South by Lamar
Oration at Concord by Curtis
Speech Nominating Blaine for President by Ingersoll
Ingersoll at His Brother's Grave by Ingersoll
What Think Ye of Christ? by Moody
Conklings' Speech Nominating Grant for a Third Term by Conkling
Garfields' Speech nominating Sherman for President by James A. Garfield
E. Benjamin Andrews on the Evils of Reconstruction by E. Benjamin Andrews
Laying the First Successful Atlantic Cable by Cyrus W. Field
Why the United States Wanted Alaska by Charles Sumner
Treaty with Russia, 1867 by The U.S. and Russian Governments
The Purchase of Alaska by Frederic Bancroft
The Purchase of Alaska by James G. Blaine
Hunting Buffalo to Feed the Railroad Builders by William F. Cody
The Second Visit of Dickens by Charles Dickens
The Threatened Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Shelby M. Cullom
The Fourteenth Amendment by Thaddeus Stevens
Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth President by James Ford Rhodes
The First Transcontinental Railroad by John P. Davis
Black Friday by J. K. Medbery
Black Friday by E. Benjamin Andrews
The Alabama Claims and the Geneva Arbitration by James G. Blaine
The Fifteenth Amendment by Henry Wilson
The Ku-Klux Klan by Federal Grand Jury
The Great Chicago Fire by Horace White
The Overthrow of the Tweed Ring by E. Benjamin Andrews
The Greeley Campaign by James G. Blaine
The Geneva Award in the "Alabama" Claims by The Arbitrators
Carpet-Bag Government by James Shepherd Pike
The Panic of 1873 by E. Benjamin Andrews
Cuban Intervention Proposed by Hamilton Fish
Why Reconstruction Failed by E. Benjamin Andrews, Salmon P. Chase, John Sherman
Phases of Reconstruction in South Carolina by Daniel H. Chamberlain
The Coming of the Telephone by Thomas A. Watson
The Invention of the Telephone—The Share in it of Bell and Edison by Encyclopedia Brittanica
The Celebration of the First Centenary by E. Benjamin Andrews
Centennial of the Republic by Unknown
The Hayes-Tilden Presidential Contest by Edward Stanwood
Custer's Last Stand by Judson Elliott Walker
Edison's Electric-Light Inventions by Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
The Resumption of Specie Payments by Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
Uncle Sam Resumes Specie Payments by John Sherman
Edison's Electric Light Invention by Frank L. Dyar and Thomas C. Martin
Reasons for Being a Republican by Ulysses S. Grant
The Assassination of Garfield by Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
The Assassination of Garfield by Theodore Clarke Smith
Civil Service Reform Demanded by George William Curtis
North American Relations to South America by James G. Blaine
On the Death of Garfield by James G. Blaine
The Blaine-Cleveland Campaign by Harry Thurston Peck
The Death and Funeral of General Grant by James Grant Wilson
The Chicago Haymarket Riot by Harry Thurston Peck
The Old South and the New by Grady
The Interstate Commerce Commission by Aldace Freeman Walker
The Presidential Campaign of 1888 by Edward Stanwood
The Johnstown Flood by E. Benjamin Andrews
Disputing the Samoan Islands with Germany by Harry Thurston Peck
The McKinley Tariff Bill by Charles Sumner Olcott
Behring Sea Troubles with Great Britain by Blaine, Pauncefote and Salisbury
Work Done For Humanity by Miss Willard
Bonus: Includes a FREE download of the book in electronic format for use with your computer or Mobile device.
Reviews:
“This is pure history, without all the filters of contemporary interpretation. These books will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone who wants to better understand where America has come from--and where we should be now.”
-Jay A. Parry, author, The Real George Washington
My Father W. Cleon Skousen, author of The Five Thousand Year Leap, would call this must-have collection of original source documents nothing short of pure gold of the rarest kind. This resource would have spared him decades of clawing through untold stacks and volumes of materials during his research and writing years. He would have treasured these books for that very purpose, and joins me in highly recommending these volumes to scholars and casual readers alike; anyone looking for accurate answers to difficult questions about America, freedom, and our era of unprecedented prosperity.
-Paul Skousen, author, speaker, CIA analyst, and Reagan White House intelligence officer
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