Reconstruction

<p><span class="deck">One of the saddest tales in American history tells how a well-intentioned President lost a dazzling opportunity</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Was it, as Navy Secretary Welles believed, “a conspiracy to overthrow the government”?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A TALE OF RECONSTRUCTION<br /><span class="typestyle"> Of the turbulent career of Pinckney B. S. Pinchback, adventurer, operator, and first black governor of Louisiana. He reminds one powerfully, says the author, of the late Adam Clay ton Powell, Jr.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Whatever you were taught or thought you knew about the post-Civil War era is probably wrong in the light of recent study</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="body">The Fifteenth Amendment, like the Fourteenth, was almost strangled in its cradle.</span></p>

<p>The disputed election of "His Fraudulency" Rutherford B. Hayes ended the era of Reconstruction.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Since the Civil War, the nation has sent just four African-Americans to the Senate. Why?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of Lee’s greatest lieutenants is slowly winning his reputation back after losing it for daring to criticize his boss.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage</span></span></p>

<p>Although he was scrupulously honest, Andrew Johnson angered members of Congress by thwarting their plans for Reconstruction.</p>