Homework #1:

Hollitz, John. "Historians and Textbooks: The `Story' of Reconstruction." Chap. 1 in Thinking Through the Past: A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. History, Vol. 2, Since 1865. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

 

 

1)       What is each author's view of the African Americans who participated in the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South? In each of your answers, identify one word or phrase that best reveals the author's view.

 

a)       Wilson (1906)

 

 

 

 

 

b)       Woodson (1922)

 

 

 

 

 

c)       Bailey (1966)

 

 

 

 

 

d)       Norton (2001)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)       What is each author's view of the overturning of Reconstruction? In each of your answers, identify one word or phrase that best reveals the author's view.

 

a)       Wilson (1906)

 

 

 

 

 

b)       Woodson (1922)

 

 

 

 

c)       Bailey (1966)

 

 

 

 

d)       Norton (2001)