Almanac

The Reconstruction Era Reference Library provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877.

Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Almanac covers the political and social aspects of Reconstruction, including carpetbaggers and scalawags, amnesty for white Southerners, Black Codes, the impeachment of President Johnson, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, attempts to restore the old order in the South and much more. 01