Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrori

Presents an outline of a period in Texas history that has left a deep impress upon the later history, the political organization and the public mind of Texans.

On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a st

In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary s