- Abraham Lincoln
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the beginnings of the National Agricultural Library. Also includes various full text documents and agricultural Acts from the 1860s. - Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is the former governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, having served from 1996 to 2007, who is a candidate in the United States presidential election, 2008. He was only the third Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction. He officially announced his candidacy for the United States presidential election, 2008 on January 28, 2007. - Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a U.S. Senator from Greeneville, Tennessee at the time of the secession of the southern states. He was the only Southern Senator not to quit his post upon secession, and became the most prominent War Democrat from the South. In 1862 Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of Tennessee, … - Eric Foner
Starting October 1, 2001 , Eric Foner will moderate a month-long open discussion on teaching about Reconstruction on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site provided below. From the HISTORY MATTERS home page select "Coming in October: Eric Foner on Reconstruction." To subscribe, choose "Join or leave list." Professor Foner will answer questions and lead a discussion on teaching about Reconstruction. - Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 - March 11, 1874) was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States (U.S.) Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction along with Thaddeus Stevens. He jumped from party to party, gaining fame as a Republican. One of the most learned statesmen of the era, … - John Cornyn
John Cornyn III (born February 2, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Texas. He is a Republican and was elected to his first term in November 2002, defeating Democrat Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, Texas. Cornyn was born in Houston, Texas to Atholene Gale Danley and John Cornyn II. He graduated from Trinity University in 1973, where he majored in journalism and was a member of the local fraternity Chi Delta Tau. He earned a J.D. from St. - John Ford
John N. Ford (born May 3, 1942) is a funeral director, insurance agent, and consultant in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate, representing District 29, and the brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Sr. and hence the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. In April 2007 he was convicted on Federal bribery charges. - W. E. B. du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced) (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, … - Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He, Charles Sumner, and John C. Frémont were the powerful leaders of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. His biographer characterizes him as, "The Great Commoner, savior of free public education in Pennsylvania, … - Sonny Perdue
George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin Conley at the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s. Perdue has recently been touted as a potential Vice-Presidential candidate for the GOP. - Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 - December 24, 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. Less noteable, is his short term as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. He served for less than one day. - David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War. Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. He taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and, from 1973, Harvard University. He also taught at Smith College, the University of North Wales, Princeton University, University College London and served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. - Tom Price
Dr. Thomas E. "Tom" Price (born October 8 1954) is an American politician. He has been a member of the Republican caucus of the United States House of Representatives since 2005 representing the 6th Congressional District of Georgia (map), based in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. He was born in Lansing, Michigan and graduated with an M.D. from the University of Michigan. He completed his residency at Emory University in Atlanta and decided to stay there afterwards. - Tom Craddick
Thomas Russell “Tom” Craddick is the first Republican to serve as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives since Reconstruction. - Billy Tauzin
Wilbert Joseph Tauzin, II, usually known as Billy Tauzin, (born June 14 1943), American politician of Cajun descent, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005, representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. A lifelong resident of Chackbay, Louisiana, a small town just outside Thibodaux, … - Edward Heath
Edward Heath was mayor of New Orleans from March 28 1867 to June 10 1868. His tenure came during the Reconstruction of Louisiana, and required a stronger personality than he brought to the office. During his term, he faced budgetary and racial problems as well as the continued interference of the military authorities of the U. S. Federal government. - Kenneth M. Stampp
Kenneth Milton Stampp (July 12, 1912 -), Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley (1946-1983), is a celebrated historian of slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction. He was arguably the most influential historian in his field working in the post-World War II era, and is the dean of historians of the Civil War era. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University, … - John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 - April 5, 1991) was the first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - William J. Jefferson
William Jennings Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, Jefferson has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991. He represents, which includes much of the greater New Orleans area. He is Louisiana's first black Congressman since the end of Reconstruction. He is currently the subject of a corruption probe, and in May 2006 his Congressional offices were raided, … - Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of classical music ranging from orchestral, to opera, choral, and piano music. His "Adagio for Strings" became his most famous composition and can be heard in films such as "Sicko", "Platoon", "The Elephant Man", "El Norte", "Amélie", "Lorenzo's Oil" and "Reconstruction". - Mark White
Mark Wells White (born 1940) is an American lawyer, who served as the forty-fourth Governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987. Born in Henderson, Texas, in Rusk County, White attended Baylor University in Waco, and was a member of the prestigious Tryon Coterie Club, now Phi Delta Theta (Texas Lambda Chapter) at Baylor. He graduated with a law degree in 1965. After spending time practicing law in a private practice in Houston (Harris County), … - Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop A. Rockefeller (May 1, 1912 - February 22, 1973), was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the renowned Rockefeller family. - Samuel Bowles
"'Samuel Bowles" was an American journalist born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the son of Samuel Bowles (1797-1851) of the same city, who had established the weekly "Springfield Republican" in 1824. The daily issue was begun in 1844, as an evening newspaper, afterwards becoming a morning journal. To its service Samuel Bowles, junior, devoted his life (with the exception of a brief period during which he was in charge of a daily in Boston), … - Michael Les Benedict
Michael Les Benedict is a prominent American historian, who taught at Ohio State University from 1970 until his retirement in 2005. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Illinois and his PhD from Rice University. His expertise is principally in constitutional and legal history, civil rights and civil liberties, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Benedict brings a decidedly political science approach to his analysis of historical events. - John Burgess
John William Burgess was a pioneering American political scientist. Burgess was born in Tennessee, and fought for the Union in the American Civil War. He studied history at Amherst College, graduating in 1867, then at the universities of Göttingen, Leibzig, and Berlin for a number of years, where he studied under disciples of Hegel. He was much influenced by the training in research methods characteristic of German universities of the time. - William Mahone
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 - October 8, 1895), of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Small of stature, he was nicknamed "Little Billy". As a civil engineer, he helped build Virginia's roads and railroads in the antebellum and postbellum (Reconstruction) periods of the 19th century. - Mac Thornberry
William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry (born July 15, 1958), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He represents the 13th Congressional District of Texas, which includes much of the Panhandle and stretches as far east as Wichita Falls (map). He currently serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Thornberry is a lifelong resident of Clarendon, the seat of Donley County, … - Bill Clements
William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr. (born April 17, 1917), is the first Republican to have served as governor of the U.S. state of Texas since Reconstruction. He was governor for two nonconsecutive terms from 1979-1983 and 1987-1991. - Charles Griffin
Charles Griffin (December 18, 1825 - September 15, 1867) was a career officer in the United States Army and a Union general in the American Civil War. He rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac and fought in many of the key campaigns in the Eastern Theater. After the war, he commanded the Department of Texas during Reconstruction. He proved to an ardent supporter of the Congressional policies of the Radical Republicans and of freedmen's rights, … - Henry Winter Davis
Henry Winter Davis (August 16 1817 - 30 December 1865) was a United States Representative from the fourth and third districts of Maryland, well known as one of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War. - John R. Lynch
John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 - November 2, 1939) was the first African American Speaker of the House in Mississippi. He was also one of the first African American members of the U.S House of Representatives during the Reconstruction, the period in United States history after the Civil War. - Henry McNeal Turner
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was a Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Turner was born "free" in Georgia, United States. Instead of being sold into slavery, his family sent him to live with a Quaker family. The law at the time of his birth prevented a black child from being taught to read or write. Assisted by some sympathetic whites and through observation at a law firm where he worked as a caretaker he taught himself to read and write. - Thelma Drake
Thelma D. Drake (b. November 20 1949, Elyria, Ohio) is a member of the Republican party from the state of Virginia. She was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent the Second Congressional District of Virginia. Thelma Drake attended Elyria High School and Old Dominion University. She worked as a real estate agent in Norfolk, … - Tim Hutchinson
Timothy "Tim" Hutchinson (born August 11, 1949) is a politician and former senator from the state of Arkansas. Hutchinson was born in Bentonville, Arkansas, and he graduated from Bob Jones University. Hutchinson was a pastor, a history instructor, and he owned a radio station. Hutchinson served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1985 to 1992. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 1992, representing the 3rd District. - John Kahn
John Kahn (13 June 1947 - 30 May 1996) was an American rock bass player. For a period of about twenty five years Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead, playing in nearly every line-up of the Jerry Garcia Band (including Reconstruction and Legion of Mary with organist Merl Saunders) and acoustic stand-up bass in Garcia's Old and in the Way during 1973, arguably the first "newgrass" group. - Ron Ramsey
Ronald Lynn "Ron" Ramsey (born November 20, 1955) is the current Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate; by virtue of his speakership, he also the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee. A Republican from Blountville in East Tennessee, Ramsey succeeded long-term Democratic Lieutenant Governor John S. Wilder, who had held the office of Tennessee Lieutenant Governor since 1971. - G. K. Butterfield
George Kenneth Butterfield, Jr. (born April 27, 1947) commonly known as G. K. Butterfield, is an American Democratic Party politician. He currently represents North Carolina's 1st congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Butterfield, an only child, was born in Wilson, North Carolina. His parents were Dr. G. K. Butterfield and Addie Davis Butterfield. - James Ford Rhodes
James Ford Rhodes, was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended New York University beginning in 1865. He also attended the Collège de France. During his studies in Europe he visited ironworks and steelworks. After his return to the United States, he investigated iron and coal deposits for his father. In 1874, with his father, he started in the iron, coal, and steel industries at Cleveland. - Powell Clayton
Powell Clayton (7 August 1833 - 23 August 1914) was the first carpetbag Governor of the State of Arkansas and Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Clayton was born in Bethel, Pennsylvania to John and Ann Glover Clayton. His father was an orchard keeper and carpenter and parents had ten children in all, although six died in infancy. He attended a private military academy in Bristol, …
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