1. "They Loved but Did Not Agree": African American Women Divorcees in Post-Civil War Virginia (Arlisha Norwood)
2. Reconstructing Nationalism: Charles Sumner, Human Rights, and American Exceptionalism (Mark Elliott)
3. Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of Reconstruction (A. James Fuller)
4. Building a New Political Order: Reconstruction, Capitalism, and the Contest Over the American State (Nicolas Barreyre)
5. Race, Representation, and Reconstruction: The Origins and Persistence of Black Electoral Power, 1865–1900 (Peter Wallenstein)
6. Lynching in the American Imagination: A Historiographical Reexamination (Mari N. Crabtree)
7. "Magnificent Resources": Reconstruction in Indian Territory (Troy D. Smith)
8. A New Birth of Freedom Abroad (Don H. Doyle)
9. Confederate Reconstructions: Generations of Conflict (David Moltke-Hansen)
10. Reconstruction at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 (Krista Kinslow)
11. Mark Twain and the Failure of Radical Reconstruction (J. Mills Thornton)
12. Teaching DuBois' Black Reconstruction (Garry Bertholf and Marina Bilbija)
13. Three Historians and a Theologian: Howard Thurman and the Writing of African American History (Peter Eisenstadt)
14. Killing Calvin Crozier: Honor, Myth, and Military Occupation after Appomattox (Lawrence T. McDonnell)