Video Reviews
- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Crash Course: Reconstruction
- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Heimler's History: Reconstruction's Beginning ( 8 min)
- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Reconstruction's Failure Sharecropping, KKK, Black Codes, End of Reconstruction) (4 min)
- Textbook Chapter 22 Review
- *Facing Ourselves & History: Why Study Reconstruction?
- Primary Source Recordings: Ex-Slaves Talk About the End of Slavery
- *History Channel: Lincoln's Assassination Devastates a Nation
- Reconstruction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- The Three Plans: Lincoln's, Johnson's, and Congressional Reconstruction
- The Presidents Series: Johnson, Grant, and Hayes
- Hip Hughes: Reconstruction Explained
- Hip Hughes: The Johnson Impeachment Explained
- History Channel: The Failure of Reconstruction
- History Channel: African Americans after the Civil War
- History Channel: The 15th Amendment
- History Channel: Black Codes
- Great Comparison! Lincoln vs. Johnson's Reconstruction Plans
- Vox: Rewriting Civil War History
- More detailed videos from Facing Ourselves & History:
- A Contested History - Scholars discuss how and why the history of Reconstruction is so contested.
- The World the Civil War Made - Scholars discuss the effects that the changes brought about by the Civil War had on the identities of American citizens.
- Defining Freedom - Scholars discuss the evolution of the definition of freedom for emancipated slaves after the Civil War.
- Review of 1865-1866, The Political Struggle - Scholars discuss the different visions for Reconstruction held by Congress and President Johnson.
- Interracial Democracy - Scholars discuss how African Americans and whites initially worked together within Reconstruction governments.
- Violence & Backlash - Scholars discuss racial violence that took part in the South during the Reconstruction era.
- Legacies on Reconstruction - Scholars discuss the legacies of the Reconstruction era as part of Facing History and Ourselves’ work on the period