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...

The aftermath of a long, hard war can be as arduous as the fighting itself. Such is the case with Reconstruction, one of the most volatile peacetime periods in American history. Rebel armies may have surrendered, but the Confederate people did not. The...

(1865–77) Period after the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and economic problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 Confederate states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of...

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 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....