Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation ... The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the ...

which argued that the South’s involvement in the Civil War was about states’ rights and heroism, not slavery. At the Atlanta History Center’s Margaret Mitchell House, which celebrates the ...

This course surveys the increasing political, social, and economic tensions between the North and the South during the first half of the nineteenth century; the explosion of those tensions into ...