Editing Reconstruction era (section)

==Bibliography==
For more sources, see [[Reconstruction: Bibliography]] and [[Bibliography of slavery in the United States]]
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===Scholarly secondary sources===
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* {{cite book |last=Anderson |first=James D. |title=The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 |year=1988 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |title-link=The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935}}
* {{cite book |last=Barney |first=William L. |title=Passage of the Republic: An Interdisciplinary History of Nineteenth Century America |year=1987 |publisher=D. C. Heath |isbn=0-669-04758-9}}
* {{cite book |last=Behrend |first=Justin |title=Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War |place=Athens, Georgia |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=2015}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bellani |first1=Luna |last2=Hager |first2=Anselm |last3=Maurer |first3=Stephan |title=The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Lawmaking |journal=Journal of Economic History |year=2022 |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=250–283 |doi=10.1017/S0022050721000590 |s2cid=211165817 |doi-access=free |hdl=10419/224053 |hdl-access=free}}
* {{cite journal |last=Blair |first=William |date=2005 |title=The use of military force to protect the gains of reconstruction |journal=Civil War History |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=388–402 |doi=10.1353/cwh.2005.0055 |s2cid=144025738}}
* {{cite book |last=Blum |first=Edward J. |title=Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898 |year=2005}}
* {{cite book |last=Bradley |first=Mark L. |title=Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8131-2507-7}}
* {{cite book |last=Brands |first=H. W. |author-link=H.W. Brands |title=The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant in War and Peace |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-385-53241-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fGn2t-tuQBMC |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Brown |editor-first=Thomas J. |title=Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States |date=2008}}
* {{cite book |last=Calhoun |first=Charles W. |title=The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant |author-link=Charles W. Calhoun |publisher=University Press of Kansas |location=Lawrence |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-7006-2484-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWXdswEACAAJ}} scholarly review and response by Calhoun at {{doi|10.14296/RiH/2014/2270}}
* {{cite book |last=Chernow |first=Ron |author-link=Ron Chernow |title=Grant |publisher=Penguin Press |location=New York |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-59420-487-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRYcDgAAQBAJ}}
* Cimbala, Paul, and Randall Miller, eds. ''The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction'' (Fordham UP, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296828
* {{Cite book |last1=Cimbala |first1=Paul Alan |last2=Miller |first2=Randall M. |last3=Simpson |first3=Brooks D. |title=An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front |url=https://archive.org/details/uncommontimecivi00paul |url-access=registration |publisher=Fordham University Press |date=2002 |isbn=978-0-8232-2195-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Cruden |first=Robert |title=The Negro in Reconstruction}} {{full citation needed|date=October 2020}}
* {{cite book |last1=Donald |first1=David Herbert|author1-link=David Herbert Donald |last2=Baker |first2=Jean H.|author2-link=Jean H. Baker |last3=Holt |first3=Michael F. |title=The Civil War and Reconstruction |place=New York |publisher=Norton |year=2001 |isbn=978-0393974270 |oclc=247969097}}
* {{cite book |last=Downs |first=Gregory P. |title=After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War |place=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2015}}
* {{Cite book |last=Downs |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8u7q5CB9yYC |title=Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780199758722 |location=New York |via=Google Books}}
* {{cite book |last=Doyle |first=Don H. |author-link=Don H. Doyle |title=The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World |place=Princeton & Oxford |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2024}}
* {{cite book |title=The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era |last=Egerton |first=Douglas |publisher=Bloomsbury Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-1-60819-566-4}}
* {{cite book |last=Foner |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Foner |title=Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy |url=https://archive.org/details/nothingbutfreedo00fone/page/40/mode/2up |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |location=Baton Rouge |date=1983 |pages=39–40 |isbn=978-0-8071-1118-5 |oclc=422767493 |lccn=83007906 |edition=1st |language=en |format=pdf |access-date=February 14, 2025 |url-access=registration }}
* {{Cite book |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=A Short History of Reconstruction |date=1990 |publisher=Harper Perennial |isbn=9780060964313 |location=New York}}
* {{cite book |last1=Foner |first1=Eric |last2=Mahoney |first2=Olivia |title=America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War |date=June 1997 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=0-8071-2234-3}}
* {{cite book |author-link=Eric Foner |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 |date=1988 |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=0-06-015851-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780060158514}} Pulitzer-prize winning history, and most detailed synthesis of original and previous scholarship.
* {{cite book |author-link=Eric Foner |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction |year=2005}}
* {{cite book |author-link=Eric Foner |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 |orig-date=1988 |date=2014b |location=New York |publisher=Harper Perennial |edition=updated |isbn=978-0-06-235451-8}}
* {{cite book |author-link=Eric Foner |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution |date=2019 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-35852-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Franklin |first=John Hope |title=Reconstruction After the Civil War |year=1961 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-26079-8}}
* Gates Jr, Henry Louis. ''Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow'' (Penguin, 2020) [https://books.google.com/books?id=M2QOEAAAQBAJ&dq=reconstruction+us+history&pg=PR13 online]; see also [https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/130.OWA_db8iuz71.pdf online book review].
* {{Cite book |last=Guelzo |first=Allen C. |title=Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President |year=1999 |publisher=W.B. Eerdmans |isbn=978-0802838728 |url=https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnre00guel |url-access=limited}} 2nd ed. (2022).
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOFHPTQYqzgC |title=Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America |last=Guelzo |first=Allen C. |publisher=Simon & Schuster Paperbacks |date=2004 |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4165-4795-2}}
* {{cite book |last=Guelzo |first=Allen C. |year=2018 |title=Reconstruction: A Concise History |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0190865696 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hBQDwAAQBAJ |access-date=March 19, 2023 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407004447/https://books.google.com/books?id=0hBQDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last=Harris |first=William C. |title=With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union |year=1997}} Portrays Lincoln as opponent of Radicals.
* {{Cite book |last1=Holzer |first1=Harold |last2=Medford |first2=Edna Greene |last3=Williams |first3=Frank J. |title=The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic) |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-8071-3144-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaB5NiiIKMcC}}
* {{cite book |last=Hubbs |first=G. Ward |title=Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawg, and Freedman |place=Tuscaloosa |publisher=University of Alabama Press |year=2015}}
* {{cite book |last=Hunter |first=Tera W. |year=1997 |title=To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780674893092 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Wilbert L. |title=Climbing up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction |year=2002}}
* {{cite book |last=Jones |first=Jacqueline |title=Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present |year=2010 |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York}}
* {{cite journal |last=Kaczorowski |first=Robert J. |title=Federal Enforcement of Civil Rights During the First Reconstruction |url=http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1591&context=ulj |year=1995 |journal=Fordham Urban Law Journal |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=155–186 |issn=2163-5978 |access-date=March 26, 2016 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120425/http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1591&context=ulj |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |last=Kahan |first=Paul |year=2018 |title=The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: Preserving the Civil War's Legacy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=It1BvgAACAAJ |publisher=Westholme Publishing |isbn=978-1-59416-273-2}}
* Kutler, Stanley I. ''Judicial power and Reconstruction politics'' (University of Chicago Press, 2022). [https://books.google.com/books?id=mzBsEAAAQBAJ&dq=reconstruction+us+history&pg=PP1 online]
* {{Cite book |last=Lemann |first=Nicholas |title=Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War |date=2007 |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |isbn=9780374530693 |location=New York |pages=15–21 |author-link=Nicholas Lemann}}
* {{cite journal |last=Logan |first=Trevon D. |date=2020 |title=Do Black Politicians Matter? Evidence from Reconstruction |journal=Journal of Economic History |volume=80 |issue=1 |pages=1–37 |doi=10.1017/S0022050719000755 |s2cid=219136609 |doi-access=free}}
* [[Staughton Lynd|Lynd, Staughton]], ed. (1967). ''Reconstruction''. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers.
* {{Cite book |last=McCarthy |first=Charles Hallan |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BkAOAAAAIAAJ |title=Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction |publisher=McClure, Philips, & Company |date=1901 |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |title=Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct |last=McFeely |first=William S. |publisher=Delacorte Press |date=1974 |isbn=978-0-440-05923-3 |location=New York |editor-first=C. Vann |editor-last=Woodward}}
* {{cite book |last=McFeely |first=William S. |author-link=William S. McFeely |title=Grant: A Biography |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |location=New York City |year=2002 |orig-date=1981 |isbn=978-0-393-01372-6 |oclc=6889578 |url=https://archive.org/details/grantbiography00mcfe}} <!-- added for page numbers referencing this edition -->
* {{cite book |last=McPherson |first=James M. |author-link=James M. McPherson |year=1992 |title=Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-507606-6}}
* {{cite book |last1=McPherson |first1=James M. |last2=Hogue |first2=James |title=Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction |year=2009}}
* {{cite book |last=Milton |first=George Fort |title=The Age of Hate: Andrew Johnson and the Radicals |year=1930 |postscript=; from Dunning School.}}
* {{cite journal |last=Morrow |first=Ralph E. |title=Northern Methodism in the South during Reconstruction |journal=Mississippi Valley Historical Review |date=1954 |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=197–218 |doi=10.2307/1895802 |jstor=1895802}}
* {{cite book |last=Oberholtzer |first=Ellis Paxson |title=A History of the United States Since the Civil War: 1865–68. Vol. 1 |year=1917}}
* {{cite book |last1=Osborne |first1=John M. |last2=Bombaro |first2=Christine |title=Forgotten Abolitionist: John A. J. Creswell of Maryland |publisher=Dickinson College |location=Carlisle, Pennsylvania |isbn=9780996932103 |date=2015}}
* {{cite book |last=Patrick |first=Rembert |title=The Reconstruction of the Nation |year=1967 |place=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/reconstructionof00patr}}
* {{cite book |last=Patton |first=James Welch |date=1934 |title=Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860–1869 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press}}
* {{cite book |last=Perman |first=Michael |title=The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869–1879 |place=Chapel Hill |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=1985 |isbn=978-0807841419}}
* {{cite book |last=Perman |first=Michael |title=Emancipation and Reconstruction |year=2003}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_FjY_ARcGoC |title=Lincoln in American Memory |last=Peterson |first=Merrill D. |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1994 |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-802304-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Randall |first1=J. G. |last2=Donald |first2=David |title=The Civil War and Reconstruction [Second Edition] |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1787200272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JoHjDAAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Rhodes |first=James F. |year=1920 |title=History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley–Bryan Campaign of 1896}}  Highly detailed narrative by Pulitzer Prize winner; argues was a political disaster because it violated the rights of White Southerners.
** [https://archive.org/details/historyunitedst07rhodgoog Volume: 6: 1865–72] (via Google Books)
** [https://archive.org/details/historyunitedst05rhodgoog Volume: 7: 1877] (via Google Books)
* {{cite book |first=William L. |last=Richter |title=A to Z of the Civil War and Reconstruction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fa2_G9yaX38C |date=2009 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-0-8108-6336-1}}
* {{cite book |last=Simon |first=John Y. |author-link=John Y. Simon |chapter=Ulysses S. Grant |editor-last=Graff |editor-first=Henry |title=The Presidents: A Reference History |edition=7th |year=2002 |pages=245–260 |publisher=Macmillan Library Reference USA |isbn=0-684-80551-0}}
* {{cite book |last=Simpson |first=Brooks D. |author-link=Brooks D. Simpson |year=2009 |title=The Reconstruction Presidents |edition=2nd |location=Lawrence, Kansas |publisher=University Press of Kansas}}
* {{Cite book |last=Sinha |first=Manisha |author-link=Manisha Sinha |title=The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920 |publisher=[[Liveright Publishing]] |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-63149-844-2}}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Jean Edward |author-link=Jean Edward Smith |title=Grant |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |year=2001 |isbn=0-684-84927-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/grant00smit |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Stampp |first=Kenneth M. |author-link=Kenneth M. Stampp |title=The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 |year=1965 |place=New York |publisher=Vintage Books |postscript=; short survey; rejects Dunning School analysis. |url=https://archive.org/details/eraofreconstruct00stam}}
* {{cite book |last=Stauffer |first=John |author-link=John Stauffer (professor) |year=2008 |title=Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln |location=New York |publisher=Twelve}}
* Stewart, Megan A., and Karin E. Kitchens. "Social transformation and violence: Evidence from US Reconstruction." ''Comparative Political Studies'' 54.11 (2021): 1939–1983. [https://www.zbw.eu/econis-archiv/bitstream/11159/375029/1/EBP075922525_0.pdf online]
* {{cite book |last=Stover |first=John F. |date=1955 |title=The Railroads of the South, 1865–1900: A Study in Finance and Control |publisher=University of North Carolina Press}}
* {{cite book |last=Stowell |first=Daniel W. |title=Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863–1877 |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-802621-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQphbo640wAC}}
* {{cite book |last=Summers |first=Mark Wahlgren |title=A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction |year=2009}} [https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Stir-Paranoia-Reconstruction-America/dp/0807833045/ excerpt and text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307235440/https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Stir-Paranoia-Reconstruction-America/dp/0807833045 |date=March 7, 2017 }}
* {{cite book |last=Summers |first=Mark Wahlgren |title=The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction |year=2014 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-1-4696-1757-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-1wBAAAQBAJ}} [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1469617579/ text search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320015239/https://www.amazon.com/dp/1469617579 |date=March 20, 2021}}
* {{cite book |last=Summers |first=Mark Wahlgren |title=Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865–1877 |year=2014a |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-61282-9}}
* {{cite journal |last=Sweet |first=William W. |date=1914 |title=The Methodist Episcopal Church and Reconstruction |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=147–165 |jstor=40194198 |jstor-access=free}}
* {{cite book |last=Thompson |first=C. Mildred |title=Reconstruction In Georgia: Economic, Social, Political 1865–1872 |orig-year=1915 |year=2010 |place=New York |publisher=The Columbia University Press; [etc.] |edition=reprint |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_i5shAQAAIAAJ}}
* {{cite book |last=Trefousse |first=Hans L. |author-link=Hans L. Trefousse |year=1989 |title=Andrew Johnson: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=W.W. Norton & Co.}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Wagner |first1=Margaret E. |last2=Gallagher |first2=Gary W. |author2-link=Gary W. Gallagher |last3=McPherson |first3=James M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7svFnyOLknUC |title=The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster Paperbacks |date=2002 |isbn=978-1-4391-4884-6}}
* {{cite book |last=Wang |first=Xi |title=The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860–1910 |publisher=The University of Georgia Press |location=Athens |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-8203-4206-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Rn8AAAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |title=The Republic for Which It Stands |title-link=The Republic for Which It Stands |last=White |first=Richard| author-link=Richard White (historian)|year=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}
* {{cite book |title=American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant |last=White |first=Ronald C. |author-link=Ronald C. White |publisher=Random House Publishing |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-58836-992-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPNRCwAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite journal |last=Williams |first=T. Harry |author-link=T. Harry Williams |title=An Analysis of Some Reconstruction Attitudes |journal=Journal of Southern History |volume=12 |issue=4 |date=November 1946 |pages=469–486 |doi=10.2307/2197687 |jstor=2197687}}
* {{Cite book |last=Woodward |first=C. Vann |author-link=C. Vann Woodward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=azoAk_r9cP8C |title=Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1966 |isbn=978-0-19-506423-0}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Zuczek |editor-first=Richard |title=Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era |year=2006}} (2 vols.)
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===Historiography===
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* {{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7PtAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21 |title=Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–18 |edition=Updated |isbn=978-0062383235 |last=Foner |first=Eric |date=2014a |chapter=Introduction to the 2014 Anniversary Edition |publisher=Harper Collins}}
* Ford, Lacy K., ed. ''A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction''. Blackwell (2005) 518 pp.
* Frantz, Edward O., ed. ''A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865–1881'' (2014). 30 essays by scholars.
* {{Cite journal |last=Parfait |first=Claire |date=2009 |title=Reconstruction Reconsidered: A Historiography of Reconstruction, from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2009-4-page-440.htm?contenu=article |journal=Études anglaises |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=440–454 |doi=10.3917/etan.624.0440 |via=Cairn Info |access-date=January 18, 2022 |archive-date=January 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182805/https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2009-4-page-440.htm?contenu=article |url-status=live}}
* Perman, Michael and Amy Murrell Taylor, eds. ''Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents and Essays'' (2010)
* {{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Heather Cox |author-link=Heather Cox Richardson |title=A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2017 |isbn=9781118913963 |editor-last=Nichols |editor-first=Christopher McKnight |editor-link=Christopher McKnight Nichols |series=Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History |pages=5–20 |chapter=Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |doi=10.1002/9781118913994.ch1 |editor-last2=Unger |editor-first2=Nancy |editor-link2=Nancy C. Unger}}
* {{cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Brooks D. |doi=10.1353/cwe.2016.0003 |title=Mission Impossible: Reconstruction Policy Reconsidered |journal=The Journal of the Civil War Era |volume=6 |pages=85–102 |date=2016 |s2cid=155789816}}
* {{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Stacey L. |doi=10.1353/cwe.2016.0073 |title=Beyond North and South: Putting the West in the Civil War and Reconstruction |journal=The Journal of the Civil War Era |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=566–591 |date=November 3, 2016 |s2cid=164313047}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Stalcup |editor-first=Brenda |title=Reconstruction: Opposing Viewpoints |publisher=Greenhaven Press |year=1995}} Uses primary documents to present opposing viewpoints.
* {{cite book |editor-last1=Stampp |editor-first1=Kenneth M. |editor-last2=Litwack |editor-first2=Leon F. |title=Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings |year=1969}} Essays by scholars.
* {{cite journal |last=Weisberger |first=Bernard A. |title=The dark and bloody ground of Reconstruction historiography |journal=Journal of Southern History |volume=25 |issue=4 |date=1959 |pages=427–447 |doi=10.2307/2954450 |jstor=2954450}}
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===Yearbooks===
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* [https://archive.org/stream/appletonsannualc07newyuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1867''] (highly detailed compendium of facts and primary sources; details on every U.S. state & the national government)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=maIoAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1868''] (1873)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyMVAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1869''] (1869)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ4YAAAAIAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1870''] (1871)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jp8YAAAAIAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1872''] (1873)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=c6QoAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1873''] (1879)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=2WcMAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1875''] (1876)
* [https://archive.org/details/newappletonsannu01newyuoft ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1876''] (1877)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Do4EAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's American Annual Cyclopedia... for 1877''] (1878)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=dhhesoIKZS4C&pg=PA265 ''The American year-book and national register for 1869'' (1869) online]
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===Primary sources===
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* Barnes, William H., ed., [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=70e7f9526905ba30&idno=ABZ4229.0001.001&view=header&c=moa ''History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States''] (1868). Summary of Congressional activity.
* [[Ira Berlin|Berlin, Ira]], ed. ''Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867'' (1982), 970 pp. of archival documents; also ''Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War'' ed by Ira Berlin, [[Barbara J. Fields]], and Steven F. Miller (1993).
* [[James G. Blaine|Blaine, James G.]] ''Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860'' (1886). By Republican Congressional leader [https://archive.org/details/twentyyearsofcon002blai Vol. 2] (via Internet Archive).
* {{cite book |last=Fleming |first=Walter L. |title=Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama |year=1905 |postscript=; the most detailed study; Dunning School. |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41680/41680-h/41680-h.htm |via=Project Gutenberg |access-date=March 30, 2016 |archive-date=October 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012115736/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41680/41680-h/41680-h.htm |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |author-link=Walter L. Fleming |last=Fleming |first=Walter L. |title=Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational, and Industrial |year=1906–1907}} 2 vols. Presents a broad collection of primary sources; Vol. 1: On National Politics; [https://books.google.com/books?id=1OoLAAAAIAAJ Vol. 2: On States] (via Google Books).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060623150026/http://docsouth.unc.edu/holden/holden.html ''Memoirs of W. W. Holden''] (1911); via Internet Archive. North Carolina "scalawag" governor.
* Hyman, Harold M., ed. ''The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861–1870'' (1967), collection of long political speeches and pamphlets.
* {{cite book |last=Lee |first=Stephen D. |author-link=Stephen D. Lee |editor-last=Evans |editor-first=Clement A. |editor-link=Clement A. Evans |date=1899 |chapter=The South Since the War |title=Confederate Military History |volume=XII |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/confedmilhist12evanrich#page/n283/mode/2up |location=Atlanta, Georgia |publisher=Confederate Publishing Company |pages=267–568 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |last=Lynch |first=John R. |title=The Facts of Reconstruction |place=New York |publisher=The Neale Publishing Company |year=1913 |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16158/16158-h/16158-h.htm |access-date=May 14, 2006 |archive-date=January 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113105047/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16158/16158-h/16158-h.htm |url-status=live}} One of the first Black congressmen during Reconstruction.
* {{cite book |editor-last=Matthews |editor-first=James M. |title=The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive; Arranged in Chronological Order |location=Richmond |publisher=R. M. Smith |year=1864 |url=https://archive.org/details/statutesatlargeo00confed |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |last=McPherson |first=Edward |author-link=Edward McPherson |title=The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction |year=1875 |publisher=Solomons & Chapman |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalhistor03mcphgoog}} large collection of speeches and primary documents, 1865–1870, complete text online. [The copyright has expired.]
* Palmer, Beverly Wilson; Byers Ochoa, Holly; eds. ''The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens'' 2 vols. (1998), 900&nbsp;pp; his speeches plus and letters to and from Stevens.
* Palmer, Beverly Wilson, ed. ''The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner'', 2 vols. (1990); Vol. 2 covers 1859–1874.
* {{cite web |last1=Peters |first1=Gerhard |last2=Woolley |first2=John T. |title=1868 Democratic Party Platform |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29579 |url-status=dead |publisher=The American Presidency Project |year=2018b |access-date=January 4, 2021 |archive-date=August 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803193830/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29579}}
* [[James Shepherd Pike|Pike, James Shepherd]] [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AFK4119.0001.001 ''The prostrate state: South Carolina under negro government'' (1874)]
* [[Whitelaw Reid|Reid, Whitelaw]] [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AFJ8942.0001.001 ''After the War: A Southern Tour, May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866''] (1866). By Republican editor.
* Smith, John David, ed. ''We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865–1877'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014). xviii, 133 pp.
* Sumner, Charles [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0012-69 'Our Domestic Relations: or, How to Treat the Rebel States' ''Atlantic Monthly'' September 1863] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020725084411/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0012-69 |date=July 25, 2002 }}, early abolitionist manifesto.
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