Bibliography of the Reconstruction Era

A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled "The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union." The caption reads (Johnson): Take it quietly Uncle Abe and I will draw it closer than ever. (Lincoln): A few more stitches Andy and the good old Union will be mended.

This is a selected bibliography of the main scholarly books and articles of Reconstruction, the period after the American Civil War, 1863–1877 (or 1865 to 1877).

Secondary sources

Surveys and reference

National politics

Constitutional issues

National politics: biographies

Southern politics: biographies and leadership

Social and economic history

Women, family and gender

Border states

South: regional, state and local studies

Alabama

Arkansas

Georgia

Louisiana

South Carolina

Tennessee

Historical Society’s Publications 14 (1942): 59-84. 

Texas

Virginia

Compromise of 1877 and end of Reconstruction

Historiography and memory

Primary sources

Newspapers and magazines

Freedman's Bureau

Education

Freedmen's Bureau

Primary sources

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