Part I. Andrew Johnson -- Andrew Johnson before the presidency / Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein -- Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction / Erik Mathisen -- Andrew Johnson: race, the constitution and democracy / Aaron Astor -- The impeachment of Andrew Johnson / Luis Fuentes-Rohwer -- Foreign affairs and Andrew Johnson / Richard Zuczek -- Part II. Ulysses S. Grant -- Ulysses S. Grant: birth to the Mexican-American War / Pamela K. Sanfilippo -- Ulysses S. Grant: star on the rise, 1861-1863 / Brian Steel Wills -- Ulysses S. Grant: the making of a military politician, 1861-1865 / Brian Holden Reid -- The general-in-chief, 1864-1865 / William B. Feis -- Ulysses S. Grant goes to Washington: the commanding general as secretary of war / James J. Broomall -- The 1868 and 1872 elections / Andrew Prymak -- Looking for the popular culture of Grant's America / Woody Register -- Reconstruction during the Grant years: the conundrum of policy / Thomas R. Pegram -- Go west, young man: expansion and American Indian policy / Eric J. Morser -- Avoiding war: the foreign policy of Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish / Stephen McCullough -- Grant and historical memory / John F. Marszalek -- Grant and heroic leadership / Frank J. Williams -- Engagement rather than escape: Ulysses S. Grant's world tour, 1877-1879 / William M. Ferraro -- Part III. Rutherford B. Hayes -- "Crushing the traitors": Rutherford B. Hayes in the Civil War / John R. Lundberg -- Rutherford B. Hayes: the road to the White House / Allan Peskin -- Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877 / Marc-William Palen -- Hayes and civil service reform / Ari Hoogenboom -- The shattered dream: the shock of industrialization and the crisis of the free labor ideal / Eric Leif Davin -- Lifting the veil of obscurity?: Lucy Webb Hayes, America's first "First Lady" / Katherin E. Rohrer -- Part IV. The Age of Reconstruction -- Edison and the age of invention / David Hochfelder -- Centennial celebrations / John Hepp -- Community responsibilities, citizenship rights: gender and power in the Reconstruction era / Michelle Kuhl -- Playing on a new field: the U.S. Supreme Court in Reconstruction / Roman J. Hoyos -- Scandal, corruption / Robert W. Burg -- Ex-presidents in the Age of Reconstruction / Edward Frantz.