Description:
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
Review Quotes: "This book is a useful tool that will find its way onto many syllabi in the upcoming years, including mine." (H-Net Reviews, 1 April 2011)
"Harrold provides an excellent introduction with not only the historical facts, but also a solid discussion of the historiography. The introduction alone makes it valuable in the classroom. For instructors looking for a good set of primary documents to use in their upper-division Civil War courses, Harrold has provided a great service. Highly recommended." (Choice, November 2008)