Author:
Hyman, Harold Melvin, 1924- comp.
Imprint:Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1967]
Descriptionlxxxvi, 538 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Part One. The Year Before Sumter: Radicals on the defensive: 1. Ben Wade, Senate speech, March 7, 1860 -- 2. Carl Schurz, St. Louis speech, August 1, 1860 -- Part Two. War: the concentration of extraordinary power for beneficent purposes, 1862: 3. The Reverend George B. Cheever, New York Independent, January 16, 1862 -- 4. George Julian, Speech, January 14, 1862 -- 5. Ben Wade, speech, April 21, 1862 -- 6. The Reverend George F. Noyes, Sermon to troops, July 4, 1862 -- Part Three. Radicalism takes the offensive: 7. The Reverend Samuel Spears, Sermon, October 19, 1862 -- 8. Charles Drake, speech, September 1, 1863 -- 9. Frederick Douglass, speech, December 4, 1863 -- 10.. William Whiting, policy memorandum, July 28, 1863 -- 11. Charles Sumner, Senate speech on Reconstruction, July 7, 1862 -- 12. Resolution of soldiers of the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers, March 11, 1863 -- 13. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, preliminary report, June 30, 1863 -- Part Four. Reconstruction policy and Republican crisis: 14. Wade-Davis bill, July 2, 1864 -- 15. Abraham Lincoln, veto message on Wade-Davis bill, July 8, 1864 -- 16. The Wade-Davis manifesto, August 5, 1864 -- Part Five. Peace will soon break out: 17. William Mason Grosvenor, Article, January 1865 -- 18. Ben Wade, speech, January 9, 1865 -- 19. George W. Julian, speech, February 7, 1865 -- 20. Frederick Douglass, speech, April 1865 -- 21. Elizur Wright, letter, March 1865 -- 22. Abraham Lincoln, speech, April 11, 1865 -- 23. Whitelaw Reid, article on Lincoln and Negro suffrage, July 23, 1865 -- Part Six. The Freedmen's Bureau: self-help versus paternalism: 24. Charles Sumner, speech, June 8, 1864 -- Freedmen's Bureau law, March 3, 1865 -- 26. American Freedman's Inquiry Commission, Final report, mid-1864 -- 27. Freedmen's Bureau, continued: churchmen, soldiers, reformers, late 1864 -- 28. Lyman Abbott, survey of the Freedmen's Bureau's work, August 1867 -- Part Seven: The critical year, 1865 : 29. Dr. George B. Loring, speech and letter, April 26, May 15, 1865 -- Frederick Douglass, speech, May 9, 1865 -- Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction proclamation, May 29, 1865 -- George S. Boutwell, speech, July 4, 1865 -- William Grosvenor, article, September 1865 - 34. The Reverend George B. Cheever and others, petition, November 30, 1865 -- 35. Carl Schurz, report, December 1865 -- 36. "The lesson from Jamaica," editorial, December 1865 -- Part Eight. Fruits into ashes: 37. The imperatives to action: General Order No. 3 -- 38. Civil Rights bill, April 9, 1866 -- Thaddeus Stevens, speech, May 8, 1866 -- Part Nine. Year of Decision, 1866: 40. Wendell Phillips, speech, April 1866 -- 41. The Reverend George B. Cheever, pamphlet, 1866 -- 42. John Richard Dennett, Nation report, April 1866 -- 43. George L. Prentiss, article, October 1866 -- Part Ten. Congress acts on Reconstruction, 1876: 44. George W. Julian on the 1866 elections, December 1866 -- 45. Thaddeus Stevens, speech, January 3, 1867 -- 46. George W. Julian on Republican cross-purposes -- 47. The first Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867 -- 48. Supplement to the Reconstruction Act, March 23, 1867 -- 49. Charles Sumner, speech on education and Reconstruction, March 16, 1867 -- 50. General John A. Rawlins, speech, June 1867 -- 51. Supplement to the Reconstruction Act, July 19, 1867 -- Part Eleven. Reconstruction and impeachment: 525. The Nation, editorial, July 18, 1867 -- 53. Army commands in Mississippi, and Daniel Chamberlain, speech, October 4, 1870 -- 54. General E.R.S. Canby, General Order, July 1868 -- Part 12. The issues of '68: 55. E.L. Godkin, editorial, July 18, 1867 -- 56. Howard M. Jenkins, pamphlet, 1868 -- Part Thirteen. Thirty-five years of antislavery agitation fittingly rounded out: 57. The American Freedman, editorial, December 1868 -- 58. The Reverend Alexander Clark, sermon, November 26, 1868 -- 59. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Henry Adams, 1868-1869 -- 60. Wendell Phillips, speech, December 1869 -- 61. Charles Sumner, speech, February 1869 -- 62. William Lloyd Garrison, speech, April 9, 1870 -- 63. Wendell Phillips, speech, April 9, 1870 -- 64. Durbin Ward, speech, September 10, 1870 -- Part Fourteen. 1870 and following: 65. Henry Adams, article, July 1870 -- 66. Carl Schurz, speech, May 19, 1870 -- 67. The Force Acts, 1870, 1871, 1875 -- 68. L.Q.C. Lamar on Sumner, September 1874 -- Part Fifteen. Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: lxix-lxxxvi.
Note:"... Hyman's book is simultaneous a critical review of the scholarly literature -- by itself 'worth the price of admission' -- and a pioneering guide to the rediscovery of Reconstruction. [He] gives Reconstruction a new temporal dimension by considering ... that it began the day after Sumter, not the day after Appomattox." -- Foreword
