Civil War Books - Reconstruction

Foner, Eric.  Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution  (2014)  752 pages. 

Summers, Mark.  The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) (2014)

Bercaw, Nancy. Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875  (2004)

Richardson,  Heather Cox.  West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War  (2007)

Edwards, Laura.  Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction  (1997)

Edwards, Laura.  A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2015)

Fitzgerald, Michael W.  Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South 

Foner, Eric.   Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction

Hahn, Steven.  A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

John C Rodrigue:  Lincoln and Reconstruction (2013)

Steven E. Woodworth.  The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction

Dray, Philip.  Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen  (2008).

Trelease, Allen.  White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction

Cimbala, Paul A. and Randall M. Miller.  The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction

Rabel, George C.  But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

Kendrick, Benjamin B.  The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction 39th Congress, 1865-1867

Fitzgerald,  Michael W.  The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Politics and Agricultural Change During Reconstruction

Dudden, Faye. Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America

Censer, Jane Turner.  The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895

Woodward, C. Vann.  Origins of the New South, 1877-1913  (1951, 1981)

Arenson, Adam and Andrew R. Graybill, Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (University of California Press, 2015).

Gregory Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Douglas R. Egerton, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era (Bloomsbury Press, 2014).

Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War (University of Chicago, 2014).

Elaine F. Parsons, Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction [(University of North Carolina Press, 2016) Note: just started].

Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South  ( 2009).

Brooks Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents (1998).

Blum, Edward J.  Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion and American Nationalism, 1865-1898  (2007)

Essay Collections

Brown, Thomas (ed.).  Reconstructions: New Perspectives  on Postbellum United States  (2006) 
 

Cimbala, Paul A. and Randall M. Miller. The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War

Perlman, Michael and Amy Murrell Taylor. Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents and Essays

Cimbala, Paul A. and Barton Shaw.  Making a New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War (only 2 essays on the 19th century, the rest are 20th century) 
 

Baker, Bruce and Brian Kelly, eds., After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South  (2014)

Link, William. Et al., eds.  Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South  (2013)

Downs, Gregory and Kate Masur, eds. The World the Civil War Made (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

Florida Reconstruction

Weinfeld, Daniel.  The Jackson County War: Reconstruction and Resistance in Post-Civil War Florida (2009)

Shoffner, Joel.  Nor Is It over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction, 1863-1877  (1974)

Ortiz, Paul.   Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920
 

Foster, John et al.  Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida

Brown, Cantor.  Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor

Newton, Michael.  The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida

Georgia Reconstruction

Cimbala, Paul.  Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870

Wetherington, Mark.  Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia

Rogers, William Warren.  A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction
 

Duncan, Russell.  Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen

Drago, Edmund.  Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure

South Carolina Reconstruction

Saville, Julie.  The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870  (20??)   000 pages.

Zuczek, Richard.  State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina  (20??)   000 pages.

 
Holt, Thomas.  Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction  (20??)   000 pages

Underwood, James L., W. Lewis Burke, Eric Foner.  At Freedom's Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina   (20??)   000 pages.

Willie Lee Rose, C. Vann Woodward.  Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment   (20??)   000 pages.

West, Jerry Lee.  The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877  (20??)   000 pages.

Rivers, William James (author), Tara Courtney Mckinney (ed.).

Eunice: A Tale of Reconstruction Times in South Carolina

(18??, 2007)  period novel

Tuten, James.  Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom  (20??)   000 pages.

Tindall, George.  South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900  (20??)   000 pages.

Schwalm, Leslie.  A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina  (20??)   000 pages.

Jenkins, Wilbert.   Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston  (20??)   000 pages

 

Other States and Regions  

 

Rodrigue, John.  Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880  (20??)   000 pages.

Goldman, Robert.  Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank   (20??)   000 pages

Ash, Steven.  A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

Ash, Steven.  Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper South
 

Daily, Jane.  Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia

Lowe, Richard.   Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856-70: Richard G. Lowe

McClurken, Jeffrey.  Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia

Evans, William McKee and Charles Joyner.  Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear

Holt, Sharon Ann.  Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865-1900
 

Nystrom, Justin. New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom

Hollandsworth, James.  An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866  (2004)

Michael A. Ross, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era  (2015).

Masur, Kate.  An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.

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