Freedoms gained and lost: Reconstruction and its meanings 150 years later

Introduction / Simon Lewis and Adam H. Domby

Whom Is Reconstruction for? / Bruce E. Baker

Implementing Public Schools: Competing Visions and Crises in Postemancipation Mobile, Alabama / Hilary N. Green

Reconstruction Justice: African American Police Officers in Charleston and New Orleans / Samuel Watts

1874: Self-Defense and Racial Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt / Michael W. Fitzgerald

"They Mustered a Whole Company of Kluklux as Militia": State Violence and Black Freedoms in Kentucky's Readjustment / Shannon M. Smith

A Woman of "Weak Mind": Gender, Race, and Mental Competency in the Reconstruction Era / Felicity Turner

Idealism versus Material Realities: Economic Woes for Northern African American Families / Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr.

"Works Meet for Repentance": Congressional Amnesty and Reconstructed Rebels / Brian K. Fennessy

Toward an International History of Reconstruction / Don H. Doyle

The Dream of a Rural Democracy: US Reconstruction and Abolitionist Propaganda in Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1890 / Sergio Pinto-Handler

Lessons from "Redemption": Memories of Reconstruction Violence in Colonial Policy / Adam H. Domby

Remembering War, Constructing Race Pride, Promoting Uplift: Joseph T. Wilson and the Black Politics of Reconstruction and Retreat / Matthew E. Stanley

Fact, Fancy, and Nat Fuller's Feast in 1865 and 2015 / Ethan J. Kytle.