Preface : are we equal? Are we kidding? -- Reconstruction means rebuilding -- Who was Andrew Johnson? -- Presidential reconstruction -- Slavery and states' rights -- Congressional reconstruction -- Thaddeus Stevens : radical -- Impeaching a president -- Welcome to Meeting Street -- A southern girl's diary -- A failed revolution -- Meanwhile, out West -- Riding the trail -- Rails across the country -- Taking the train -- Fencing the homestead -- Reaping a harvest -- The trail ends on a reservation -- The people of the pierced noses -- A villain, a dreamer, a cartoonist -- Phineas Taylor Barnum -- Huck, tom, and friends -- Immigrants speak -- More about immigrants -- The strange case of the Chinese laundry -- Going to court -- Tea in Wyoming -- Are you a citizen if you can't vote? -- Mary in the promised land -- One hundred candles -- How were things in 1876? -- The wizard of electricity -- Jim Crow-what a fool! -- Ida B. Wells -- Lynching means killing by a mob -- A man and his times -- A man ahead of his times -- End words.