* Patton, James W. Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860-1867 University of North Carolina Press, 1934.

* Charles A. Orr, " Trade Unionism in Colonial Africa " Journal of Modern African Studies, 4 ( 1966 ), pp. 65 – 81

* August 14 – September 15 – London Dock Strike: Dockers strike for a minimum wage of sixpence an hour (" The dockers ' tanner "), which they eventually receive, a landmark in the development of New Unionism in Britain.

" in Knupfer, The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787 – 1861 ( 1991 ), pp. 119 – 57.

* R. Shannon, The Age of Salisbury, 1881 – 1902: Unionism and Empire ( 1996 ).

The subject ( 1988 – 89 ) shows an Orangeman, a member of an order dedicated to preserve Unionism in Northern Ireland.

A History of Trade Unionism in the United States 1922-313 pages online edition

Trade Unionism and Labor Problems ( 1905 ) articles by experts on unions and working condition online edition

In 1862, Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of occupied Tennessee, where he was effective in fighting and ending the rebellion ; he implemented Reconstruction policies in the state and transitioned for a time to a pro-emancipation policy.

Indeed, his home state of Tennessee ratified the Fourteenth Amendment despite the President's opposition, and was the only seceded state to empower a civil government during Reconstruction.

* 1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U. S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.

* July 24 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U. S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.

Identical Reconstruction plans would be adopted in Arkansas and Tennessee.

However, Congress refused to count any of the votes from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, in essence rejecting Lincoln's moderate Reconstruction plan.

In fact, there was serious discussion among Northern Alabama and East Tennessee counties about forming a proposed state of Nickajack, rather than going along with secession (^ Fleming, Walter L., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.

In 1865, during the early days of the Reconstruction Era, the city became the birthplace of the first Ku Klux Klan, founded by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army.

He thus became the first elected Republican senator from Tennessee since Reconstruction.

In 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the Reconstruction Act, which dissolved all governments in the former Confederate states with the exception of Tennessee.

Treason Must Be Made Odious: Military Occupation and Wartime Reconstruction in Nashville, Tennessee, 1862-65 1978.

His election was historic: ( 1 ) first Republican U. S. senator from Texas since Reconstruction, ( 2 ) third Republican from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction, ( 3 ) first Republican from a former Confederate state since Newell Sanders of Tennessee left office in 1913 ( a gap of forty-eight years ), and ( 4 ) first Republican from the former Confederacy ever to win popular election.

He was the last Republican ( United States ) governor to hold office during Tennessee Reconstruction.

Wilder was reelected in November 2004, but the former Democratic majority in the Tennessee Senate was not ; this marked the first Republican majority resulting from an election ( as opposed to mid-term party switching ) since Reconstruction.

He was the first Tennessee Lieutenant Governor in almost half a century, and only the second since Reconstruction, to serve under a governor of a different political party, Republican Winfield Dunn, who had been elected the previous November.

The 1960s redistricting was credited by some observers with creating the first Republican majority in the Tennessee House since Reconstruction in 1968 ; this situation lasted only until the next election in 1970.

This is the first time the GOP has had a majority in the Tennessee House since 1971, and the first time both House and Senate have had Republican majorities since Reconstruction.

Jenkins was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly as a Republican in 1962 and he served as Speaker of the House from 1969 to 1971 --, the only Republican to hold that position since Reconstruction.

Tennessee Democrats had not anticipated the depth of the massive Republican landslide fueled largely by the presidential candidacy of George McGovern, who carried only five of Tennessee's ninety-five counties ; the Republicans were able to win a majority in the state's congressional delegation for the first time since Reconstruction.

David Trotter Patterson ( February 28, 1818November 3, 1891 ) was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the beginning of the Reconstruction Period.

Harold Sr. was, in 1974, the first African American elected to Congress from Tennessee since Reconstruction ; he served until 1997, when he was succeeded by his son, Harold Ford, Jr. Harold Ford, Sr. and Harold Ford, Jr. are the only African Americans elected to federal office from Tennessee in the modern era.

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

In the 1860 United States Census the slave population in the United States had grown to four million, and in Reconstruction after the Civil War ( late 1860s ) the newly freed slaves became citizens with ( in the case of men ) a nominal right to vote.

* Fitzgerald, Michael R. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860 – 1890.

However, at the end of Reconstruction, the second " s " was quietly dropped and the designated honoree was changed to Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860 as evidenced by a historical marker about the creation of Douglas County:

He was appointed State Auditor in 1854 and was reelected to that position in 1858, 1860, 1862, and again in 1874 after Reconstruction ended.

Among its collections are far-ranging materials relating to the founding and early history of the nation ; one of the best collections of 18th-century newspapers in the United States ; an outstanding collection of materials documenting slavery and Reconstruction ; an exceptional collection of Civil War material, including Ulysses S. Grant ’ s terms of surrender for Robert E. Lee ; collections relating to trials in the United States prior to 1860 ; American fiction, poetry, and belles-lettres prior to 1850 ; a broad range of materials relating to the history of the circus ; and American travel accounts from the colonial era to the present day.

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860 – 1880.

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

As president, he implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.

As president, he implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) and the Reconstruction Era ( 1865 – 1877 ) that followed the war.

* 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

* 1867 – The U. S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.

* 1872 – Reconstruction: U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

* 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

" The Commemoration of Robert E. Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans ," Civil War History, Volume 51 # 2 June 2005, pp. 135 – 150

The women's suffrage movement took hold after the civil war, during the Reconstruction era ( 1865 – 1877 ).

In the Reconstruction era, the Chase, Waite, and Fuller Courts ( 1864 – 1910 ) interpreted the new Civil War amendments to the Constitution and developed the doctrine of substantive due process ( Lochner v. New York ; Adair v. United States ).

During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital, from 1870 – 1874, where his father was professor at the Columbia Theological Seminary.

* December 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate " carpetbaggers " and " scalawags ", as well as to repress the freed slaves.

Beginning of the Reconstruction era under President Andrew Johnson ( 1865 – 1869 ).

* June 25 – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) ( World Bank ) begins operations.

* January 26 – Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union.