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
  • Northern States
    revised 2-22-2006 Write the editor at rjensen@uic.edu
    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.