General Works
Michael W. Fitzgerald, Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South (2007).
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988).
James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (3rd ed., 2000).
The Meaning of Freedom
Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, 5 vols. to date (1982–).
John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (2006).
Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008).
Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979).
Susan Eva O’Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South (2007).
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865–1890 (1978).
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (1977).
Loren Schweninger, James T. Rapier and Reconstruction (1978).
Clarence E. Walker, A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1982).
The Politics of Reconstruction
Richard F. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877 (1990).
Philip Dray, Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen (2008).
Ellen Carol DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869 (1978).
Richard L. Hume and Jerry B. Gough, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction (2008).
Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post–Civil War North, 1865–1901 (2001).
Leslie A. Schwalm, Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest (2009).
Brooks D. Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents (1998).
Mark Wahlgren Summers, A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction (2009).
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C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951).
The Struggle in the South
James Alex Baggett, The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003).
Nancy D. Bercaw, Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861–1875 (2003).
Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror after the Civil War (2008).
Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895 (2003).
Paul A. Cimbala, Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 (1997).
Jane E. Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Post-Emancipation Virginia (2000).
Laura F. Edwards, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997).
Sarah E. Gardner, Blood and Irony: Southern White Women’s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937 (2004).
Stephen Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).
Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction (2008).
George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).
James L. Roark, Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977).
Hyman Rubin III, South Carolina Scalawags (2006).
Peter Wallenstein, From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1987).
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