The Civil War and Reconstruction

President Abraham Lincoln (center), at a Union Army encampment in October 1862, following the battle of Antietam.
(Library of Congress)
- Secession and Civil War
- Western advance, Eastern stalemate
- Gettysburg to Appomattox
- With Malice towards none
- Radical Reconstruction
- The End of Reconstruction
- The Civil War and New Patterns of American Politics