n. 1. (also reconstructed form unattested form) A hypothetical form which is nowhere attested but which is posited, on the basis of some evidence, as having existed in some earlier or ancestral form of a language. Such a form is conventionally marked...

A *Progressive movement. Founded by Mordecai *Kaplan and disseminated from 1935 by the Reconstructionist Magazine, Reconstructionism maintains that Judaism is an evolving religious civilization. The Reconstructionist *Prayer Book avoids all notions of...

Reconstruction was the period in American history immediately after the Civil War. The physical rebuilding of Southern cities, ports, railroads, and farms that had been destroyed during the war was only a small part of the Reconstruction process. The...

Union army general Rufus Saxton (1824–1908) had long been a friend to African Americans. He had been on hand in the Sea Islands (located off the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia) in the summer of 1865, just after the end of the Civil War...

Reconstruction was the attempt from 1863 to 1877 to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, after the Confederacy was defeated and slavery ended. "Reconstruction" is also the common name for the general history of the postwar era 1865 to 1877....

At 5:15 on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 29, James Frey informed his fans, in strikingly confident terms, that he had finished his first novel. “Done,” he wrote on his blog. “To be released in 2008.” Two weeks later, The Wall Street Journal broke the...

A government inspector told a House subcommittee Wednesday that a $2 billion U.S. reconstruction program for Iraq and Afghanistan remained plagued with problems but "has come a long way" in the past year.The Pentagon, which operates the Provincial Reconstruction program jointly with the State Department,...

The Iraqi government has refused to take control of more than 2,000 U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, a move that could jeopardize the country's credit line and cost American taxpayers, according to a report by an American watchdog agency.The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction said the...

President Bush often jokingly tells mayors to fix the potholes. The message from a longtime pol: Keep constituents happy where it counts. On Tuesday it was Bush's turn, as the president of the United States focused an hour of his time on trash pickup and...

Provides a detailed overview of the reconstruction era of the United States, from 1865 to 1877. Describes how the United States was forced to question how the new relationship of the former Confederacy and the Union be handled and how to deal with former slaves.

Essay shows the ways and to what extent the constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amounted to a revolution.

Reconstruction in the south after the Civil War.