reconstruction

Excerpted from Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray.

Ed Brooke, the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, embraced fights with the left and right.

Congress created SIGAR to provide oversight of relief and reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.

The 1950s, observed C. Vann Woodward, resembled the era of Reconstruction in many ways.

One case in particular became the focus of Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

He stepped gladly into the building and the door shut with the familiar thunder that completed the reconstruction of the past.

Any change for good among such would be to their dissolution and reconstruction on principles which they do not now hold.

Correct views of a vow, as altogether wrong, should lead to its abandonment, or a total reconstruction of it.

In these methods there is needed no reconstruction of previous images, no piecing together of a number of fragments.

There would follow, I calculated, a period of profound reconstruction in method and policy alike.