Introduction: the tragic legend of Reconstruction, by K.M. Stampp.--The friend of freedom, by R.N. Current.--Andrew Johnson, outsider, by E.L. McKitrick.--Johnson and the Negro, by LaWanda and J.H. Cox.--Northeastern business and radical Reconstruction, by S. Coben.--The "conspiracy theory" of the fourteenth amendment, by H.J. Graham.--The ballot and land for the freedmen, 1861-1865, by J.M. McPherson.--Negro suffrage and Republican politics, by LaWanda and J.H. Cox.--The old alliance, by W.L. Rose.--The meaning of freedom, by J. Williamson.--Carpetbaggers reconsidered, by R.N. Current.--The carpetbagger as corruptionist: Henry Clay Warmoth, by R.N. Current.--The scalawag in Mississippi Reconstruction, by D. Donald.--Persistent Whiggery in the Confederate South, 1860-1877, by T.B. Alexander.--Who were the scalawags? By A.W. Trelease.--Desegregation in New Orleans public schools during Reconstruction, by L.R. Harlan.--The Negro and politics, 1870-1875, by V.L. Wharton.--Social and economic forces in Alabama Reconstruction, by H.M. Bond.--Southern Reconstruction: a radical view, by J.B. Scroggs.--Black Reconstruction, by W.E.B. DuBois.--The revolution of 1875, by V.L. Wharton.--The waning of radicalism, by W.R. Brock.--The political legacy of Reconstruction, by C.V. Woodward.