Radical Reconstruction: a brief history with documents

Part One. Introduction: Who were the Radical Republicans? The Radicals' Reconstruction ; Allies and adversaries ; Wartime Reconstruction ; Andrew Johnson and the Radicals ; The Fourteenth Amendment and the election of 1866 ; The Reconstruction Act of 1867 ; The impeachment of Andrew Johnson and the election of Ulysses S Grant ; From Radicalism to redemption ; The legacy of Radical Reconstruction

Part Two. The documents. 1. Wartime reconstruction and presidential reconstruction: Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 ; Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863 ; Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis, The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 1864 ; The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1865 ; Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Speech on racial equality in the U.S. House of Representatives, February 12, 1865 ; Andrew Johnson, "May Proclamations," May 29, 1865 ; George S. Boutwell, Speech on the "true basis" of Reconstruction, July 4, 1865 ; Thaddeus Stevens, Speech on land distribution, September 6, 1865 ; George W. Julian, Speech on the "Grasp of War" Doctrine, November 17, 1865 ; Thomas Nast, "Pardon" and "Franchise," August 5, 1865 ; Northern voters reject black suffrage, 1865 ; Mississippi Legislature, Acts relating to the freedpeope, 1965 ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Letter in support of Women's suffrage, December 26, 1865

2. Defending civil rights: Andrew Johnson, First annual message, December 4, 1865 ; Charles Sumner, Speech on the "Actual condition of the rebel states," December 20, 1865 ; Benjamin Wade, Speech on the "Great principle of eternal justice," January 18, 1866 ; Lyman Trumbull, Speech on the Civil Rights Bill, January 29, 1866 ; Black delegation to the White House calls for civil and political rights, February 7, 1866 ; The Civil Rights Bill, March 1866 ; Andrew Johnson, Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, March 27, 1866 ; Harper's Weekly, "Outside of the galleries of the House of Representatives during the passage of the Civil Rights Bill," April 28, 1866 ; A Northern journalist describes racial violence in Memphis, Tennessee, May 1866 ; Report of the Joint Select Committee on Reconstruction, June 1866 ; Thaddeus Stevens, Speech on the Fourteenth Amendment, June 13, 1866 ; The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1868 ; Wendell Phillips, Speech criticizing the Fourteenth Amendment, October 25, 1866 ; Resolutions of the North Carolina Freedmen's Convention, October 1866

3. Toward African American suffrage: Record of ratification votes for the Fourteenth Amendment, October 1866-February 1867 ; Thomas Nast, "King Andy," November 3, 1866 ; Andrew Johnson, Second annual message, December 3, 1866 ; Frederick Douglass, "Reconstruction," December 1866 ; Hamilton Ward, Speech on Radical Republicanism, December 13, 1866 ; John Broomall, Speech on black suffrage, January 8, 1867 ; James M. Ashley, Speech on the Southern state governments, January 26, 1867 ; George W. Julian, "Regeneration before Reconstruction," January 28, 1867 ; The Reconstruction Act, March 1867 ; A.R Waud, "The first vote," November 16, 1867

4. Impeachment and the election of Grant: Charles Sumner and John Sherman, Debate on land redistribution, March 11, 1867 ; James M. Ashley, Speech on impeachment, March 7, 1867 ; George S. Boutwell, Speech on impeachment, December 5 and 6, 1867 ; The Tenure of Office Act, March 2, 1867 ; Articles of Impeachment against Andrew Johnson, March 2, 1868 ; The Senate votes on impeachment, May 1868 ; W.L. Sheppard, "Electioneering at the South," July 25, 1868 ; Ulysses S. Grant, Acceptance of the 1868 Republican presidential nomination, May 1868 ; The Democratic Party Platform, July 1868

5. From Radicalism to redemption. Henry Wilson and Samuel Pomeroy, Speeches on the Fifteenth Amendment, January 28-29, 1869 ; The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1870 ; Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, Debate over women's suffrage, May 1869 ; Hiram R. Revels, First speech as a U.S. Senator, March 16, 1870 ; Currier & Ives, The first colored ssenator and representatives, 1872 ; Elias Hill, Testimony about a Ku Klux Klan attack, 1871 ; "Veni vidi" describes the violence of redemption in Mississippi, July 1875 ; Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural address, March 5, 1877

Appendixes. A chronology of Radical Reconstruction (1863-1877) ; Questions for consideration ; Selected bibliography.