History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism
Chapter 23: The Reconstruction Era
Civil War Video Clips, Songs, Movies, and Related Literature
Video Clips
 “Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History” The History Channel (9:51):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqimK3oC7oo
 “The American Civil War: Reconstruction,” Discovery Streaming (25:46)
 “The Constitution and Racial Discrimination: The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments,” Discovery Streaming (1:44):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=46DA2432-7F00-41D2-9AF47AF458BE4011&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 “The Fourteenth Amendment,” Discovery Streaming (2:16):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=D486E26A-9543-4CD1-B654383DE426466B&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 “Plessy and the Era of Jim Crow,” Discovery Streaming (4:54):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=0395F01A-F50B-4AD7-B0AC4D53B8D64209&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 “Reconstruction Documentary: The Aftermath of the Civil War” (7:23):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DUYjC4bjc&feature=PlayList&p=5C2066E0F546A03B&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=
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 “April 14, 1865: Lincoln is Assassinated,” Discovery Streaming (1:43):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=456F7F53-D83B-4884-A750E9319CA567A3&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 “Reconstruction: Challenges and Progress,” Discovery Streaming (1:25):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=456F7F53-D83B-4884-A750E9319CA567A3&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 “Industrialization: Growth of Cities and Industry,” Discovery Streaming (1:17):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=456F7F53-D83B-4884-A750E9319CA567A3&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 “Buffalo Soldiers,” Discovery Streaming (26:00):
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=6F1BF65B-6B7E-4D0D-AA29FF2FE298CC85&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
Primary Documents
 Washington, Booker T. "The Case of the Negro." Atlantic Monthly 84 (1899): 577-587.:
http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&zTi=1&sdn=americanhistory&cdn=ed
ucation&tm=34&gps=124_882_1259_626&f=21&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.libra
ries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/civwar.shtml%23menu3
 Douglass, Frederick. "Reconstruction." Atlantic Monthly 18 (1866): 761-765.:
http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&zTi=1&sdn=americanhistory&cdn=ed
ucation&tm=34&gps=124_882_1259_626&f=21&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.libra
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 Douglass, Frederick. "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage." Atlantic Monthly 19
(Jan. 1867): 112-117.:
http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&zTi=1&sdn=americanhistory&cdn=ed
ucation&tm=34&gps=124_882_1259_626&f=21&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.libra
ries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/civwar.shtml%23menu3
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Reconstruction Era Music and Songs
 “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, sung by Etta James (3:00):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thz1zDAytzU
 “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” sung by Kathleen Battle and the Harlem Boys’ Choir (4:11):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVyBjqY3r0k
 “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” sung by Beyonce (2:06):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sLJW408pDk
Related Movies and Miniseries
 Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
 Gone With the Wind
Primary Documents
 Jim Crow Laws: A Legacy of the Reconstruction Era: “The Untold Story of Jackson’s Civil
Rights Movement” from the Jackson Sun October 1960, pg. 457-458, History Alive!: The
United States Through Industrialism
Related Literature
 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Henry James’ Daisy Miller
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