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Web Critique on the Reconstruction, Native American Wars & the West or the Populist Movement

br The quality of the available web sites on the period of American history known as The Reconstruction varies greatly . Two of the sites were clearly designed as teaching aids , one was a site directed as an African-American history teaching aid and one was a history of the era from a Southerner 's point of view . All had different styles , but provided essentially the same information about the era . The fifth site written by a professor from the University of Chicago , was the only site that was of questionable use

African-American Odyssey

: Reconstruction and its Aftermath ' is more focused on the African-American history after the Civil War and seems geared toward an audience studying that aspect of history . The site is more cultural than others , with a look at the every day lives of Freedmen after the war , and the effect the Reconstruction had on their residential choices . This site is rather plain in it 's formatting with a simple scroll down needed to get to new information , but the visuals are high-impact primary source reproductions of African-American events in the era

Another site , simply titled Reconstruction ' is the site maintained by the Library of Congress and talked about the Reconstruction as a period of punishment for the Rebels in the South This site had beautiful graphics and a nice historical timeline at the top of the page so that students can related the Reconstruction to other American history events , but the actual information about the era is minimal

American Experience /Reconstruction : The Second Civil War ' is by far the most professional of these sites . This is a site built and maintained by the Public Broadcasting System to accompany its documentaries about the era . The site features rollover photographs that link to multiple , -based pages . It has links to primary source materials and a teacher 's guide to give teachers suggestion on how to discuss the material in the classroom

At a site called Civil War Home , the information on the Reconstruction is a primary source document . The text comes from the diaries of Southerners who lived through the period and includes their comments on the war and its aftermath . One man calls the death of Abraham Lincoln the worst thing that could have happened to the South ' The site itself is very simple , black text on a white background and links to additional pages at the bottom of the text blocks . It includes a disclaimer at the beginning of the page that it is largely unedited and not politically correct

The most useless of the five sites was a site titled American Reconstruction : People and Politics after the Civil War ' This site makes it appear that the webmaster was more interested in form than function , making broad generalizations about the Reconstruction and the Civil War that b on inaccurate . For example , it claims the Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves . Several pages later it clarifies this inaccurate statement , but by then many internet browsers will have already lost interest

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