The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: reconsiderations

Introduction. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction : an overview / Randall M. Miller

Ulysses S. Grant and the Freedmen's Bureau / Brooks D. Simpson

Andrew Johnson and the Freedmen's Bureau / Hans L. Trefousse

Emancipation and military pacification : the Freedmen's Bureau and social control in Alabama / Michael W. Fitzgerald

"One of the most appreciated labors of the Bureau" : The Freedmen's Bureau and the Southern Homestead Act / Michael L. Lanza

The personnel of the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas / Randy Finley

Architects of a benevolent empire : the relationship between the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, 1865-1872 / E. Allen Richardson

"Une chimère" : the Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans / Caryn Cossé Bell

"Because they are women" : gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on dependency" / Mary J. Farmer

The Freedmen's Bureau and wage labor in the Louisiana sugar region / John C. Rodrigue

"A full-fledged government of men" : Freedmen's Bureau labor policy in South Carolina, 1865-1868 / James D. Schmidt

"To enslave the rising generation" : the Freedmen's Bureau and the Texas Black Code / Barry A. Crouch

Land, lumber, and learning : the Freedmen's Bureau, education and the Black community in post-emancipation Maryland / Richard Paul Fuke

Reconstruction's allies : the relationship of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Georgia freedmen

Afterword / James M. McPherson.