Jensen's Guide to Reconstruction History, 1861-1877
March 2006
Online at http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/recon.htm
Civil War links by Jensen
Overviews
Powerpoint lecture notes by Jensen
Outline overview
vocabulary terms & definitions
Digital History of Reconstruction
Historiography
Wikipedia overview and bibliography
Wikipedia on neoabolitionist tradition
E. Merton Coulter and Dunning School: Kentucky scholarly essay
Dunning, William Archibald. ''Reconstruction: Political & Economic, 1865-1877'' (1905), classic statement of Dunning School
Wikipedia Guide to Dunning School
Brock, W. R. ''An American Crisis: Congress and Reconstruction, 1865-1867'' (1963)
Walter Lynwood Fleming, The Sequel of Appomattox, A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States short 1920 book by leading Southern white scholar of Dunning school
A Constitutional History of the United States (1935) Pulitzer-winning textbook by leading scholar Andrew McLaughlin; ch 45-47 on Reconstruction
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. ''A History of the United States since the Civil War'' . Vol 1: (1917)] covers 1865, Dunning School
Rhodes, James G. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. Volume: 6. (1920) 1865-72 highly detailed narrative by leading historian. vol 7, 1872-77
Trefousse, Hans L. Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian (2001). Standard neoabolitionist biography; pro-Radical.
Trefousse, Hans L. Andrew Johnson: A Biography (1989) pro-Radical
DeBow's Magazine 1846-1869 + 1952 index Major resource for South; full of statistics; white Southern point of view
Emancipation
Freedom
Project documents on Emancipation from 1860s
Harper's Weekly original reports on Black America, 1857-1874
African American pamphlets
"First Plans for Emancipation," by Nicolay and Hay (1889): John Nicolay and John Hay were Lincoln's top aides in the White House; the essays linked here are part of their multivolume biography of Lincoln; they represent solid scholarship from a Lincolnian perspective. Hay later became Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt
"Emancipation Announced," by Nicolay and Hay (1889)
"The Edicts of Freedom," by Nicolay and Hay (1889)
"The XIIIth Amendment, by Nicolay and Hay (1889)
Wartime discussions of Reconstruction
Charles Sumner, "Our Domestic Relations" Atlantic Monthly September 1863
"The Wade-Davis Manifesto," by Nicolay and Hay (1889) Lincoln vetoed this Radical plan for Reconstruction
Wade-Davis manifesto text from collection of H W Davis's speeches
Gideon Welles, "The Administration of Abraham Lincoln" 1877 essay by Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy
"The American Liberal Tradition's Encounters with Inequality, 1865-1866" 1996 scholarly paper by Professor Ann Davies
"Friends of Freedom: Lincoln, Chase, and Wartime Racial Policy" scholarly 1993 article by Frederick Blue shows how radical Chase pushed Lincoln toward emancipation
Postwar View from Washington
leaders short bios
Andrew Johnson emphasis on impeachment; many excerpts from Harper's Weekly news magazine of the day recommended
General Grant's View of the Southern Situation
Senator Charles Sumner, "Clemency and Common Sense" Atlantic Monthly Dec 1865 analysis by leading Radical
Barnes, History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States (1868) invaluable compilation of documents recommended
Report 1866 by Congress's Joint Committee on Reconstruction; major document
Grant Administration timeline
Nast cartoons pro-radical
interpreting Nast
Greeley campaign 1872 by popular historian Benjamin Andrews
finances of 1870s by popular historian Benjamin Andrews
Interpretations
Gideon Welles, "Lincoln and Johnson" 1872 essay by the Secretary of the Navy for both presidents; favorable toward Johnson
"The Freedmen's Bureau," by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (1901) by leading black scholar
"The Undoing of Reconstruction," by William A. Dunning (1901) by leading white scholar
"The Reconstruction of the Southern States," by Woodrow Wilson (1901) written before he became President
Key National Leaders
Andrew Johnson bio
Trefousse, Hans L. ''Andrew Johnson: A Biography'' 1989 pro-Radical standard biography
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson hundreds of stories and illustrations from Harper's Weekly
Schuyler Colfax GOP leader
Henry Winter Davis Speeches and addresses delivered in the Congress of the United States, and on several public occasions [1856-1865] radical leader from Maryland
Wikipedia on Grant
Frederick Douglass on Ulysses Grant 1872 pamphlet
Jeremiah Chaplin, Life of Charles Sumner (1874) thin on Reconstruction
"William Henry Seward," by Richard Grant White (1877)
Trefousse, Hans L. ''Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian (2001). Standard neoabolitionist biography; pro-Radical.
Henry Wilson
Compromise of 1877
1877 Compromise Controversy of 1876-1877 from leading news magazine Harper's Weekly
study of 1876-77 by leading scholar Ari Hoogenboom
"Cotton and Its Kingdom" 1881 essay by Henry W. Grady, modernizer & spokesman for post-Reconstruction "New South"
Supreme Court role documents and study guide
Southern States
KKK
1881 overview by scholar
overview 1911 Encyclopdia Britannica article by Southern white scholar W. L. Fleming
"The Ku Klux Movement," by William Garrott Brown (1901)
KKK in Texas
Knights of the White Camellia similar to KKK
Freedmen
Scholarly Studies
- Anderson, James D. ''The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935'' (1988)
- Butchart, Ronald E. ''Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education, 1862-1875'' (1980)
- Carpenter, John A. ''Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard'' (1999)
- Click, Patricia C. ''Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867'' (2001)
- W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, "The Freedmen's Bureau" (1901) by leading black scholar
- Durrill, Wayne K. "Political Legitimacy and Local Courts: 'Politicks at Such a Rage' in a Southern Community during Reconstruction" in ''Journal of Southern History'', Vol. 70 #3, 2004 pp 577-617
- Rodrigue, John C. "Labor Militancy and Black Grassroots Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868" in ''Journal of Southern History'', Vol. 67 #1, 2001 pp 115-45 also in JSTOR
- Schwalm, Leslie A. "'Sweet Dreams of Freedom': Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life and Labor in Lowcountry South Carolina'' Journal of Women's History, Vol. 9 #1, 1997 pp 9-32
- Williamson, Joel ''A Rage for Order: Black/White Relations in the American South since Emancipation'' (1986) Add To
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Northern States
revised 2-22-2006
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Copyright (c) 2006 Richard Jensen. This Guide was prepared with support from the Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grants sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center. Scholars are invited to post the complete Guide to campus WWW sites and distribute it to students.