Teaching Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1861-1876

Matthew Campbell, Ed.D., serves as the K-12 Social Studies Coordinator in Conroe ISD. He also teaches social studies methods courses at the University of Houston and UH – Downtown locations. Matt received the Award for Outstanding Early-Career Teaching from Humanities Texas in 2015. He is the current president of the Texas Council for the Social Studies.

• Preface – About the Book Series Teaching Critical Themes in American History – Acknowledgments – Matthew R. Campbell: Introduction: Teaching, Learning, and Historiography – Shannon M. Smith: Teaching Emancipation as Racial Progress and Reconstruction Violence as Racist Progress – Kristen Brill: Dismantling Scarlett O’Hara: How Slaveholding White Women Supported Slavery and Resisted Emancipation – Kent A. McConnell: Jus Post Bellum and the Moral Imperatives of Reconstruction – Jenice L. View: A Reconstruction Timeline – Tim Dorsch: Drawing Conclusions: Using Political Cartoons in the Classroom to Analyze Reconstruction Era Images of African Americans – Adam J. Schmitt/Ashley Towle: Representations of Reconstruction: Social Transformations and Textbook Portrayals of the Past – Katherine Perrotta: The Road to the 19th Amendment: Examining the Women’s Suffrage Movement during the Reconstruction Era with Historical Empathy Pedagogies – Scott L. Stabler/Justin Sheldon/Timothy J. McKeeby: Reconstruction’s Accomplishment: Black Education and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement – Mark Pearcy: "There Is No Redemption from Our History": Reconstruction, Memorialization, and Public Memory – Jenice L. View/Caroline R. Pryor/Amy Wilkinson: Reconstruction Resources – Contributor Biographies – Index.

Teaching Emancipation and Reconstruction introduces the questions of Reconstruction that have loomed over the era in many educational institutions. The authors promise and deliver on providing the multiple perspectives that students, teachers and historical enthusiast can use to engage with Reconstruction through the eyes of every American then and now. Nichelle Pinkney Social Studies Coordinator and Author of Civil Discourse: Classroom Conversations for Stronger Communities