This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods.


Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879
Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them
Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate