Social equality is thrown up as an argument against Reconstruction ... need or desire among white Northerners at the end of the Civil War to preserve what they had suffered and died for.

A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal ...

Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865 ... The Thirteenth Amendment has been cited in cases to end some forms of “badges or incidents ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but teaching about it, and the role slavery played in causing it, remains one of the most ...

Chinn, Hunter College, City University of New York During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men ... Shirley Samuels - Cornell University ‘From beginning to end, the book is written with brio and ...

The first meeting of the Ukraine Reconstruction Forum will not be the end, but rather the beginning of an ongoing coordinated support effort. The reconstruction of Ukraine will be a daunting challenge ...

Congress passed the Amendment before the Civil War was even over, and it became law six months after the war’s end. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ...

working on the reconstruction of Mykolaiv, many of these plans remain only on paper as further progress is impossible until the end of the war. Many projects may also become targets for bombings.