Selected Bibliography

African-American History

The African and African-American Holocaust

 

“Been in the Storm So Long”: Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

 

Allen, James A. Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy, 1865-1876. 1937. Reprint,

New York: International Publishing, 1963.

 

Alexander, Adele Logan. Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia,

1780-1879. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.

 

Alexander, Roberta. North Carolina Faces the Freedmen: Race Relations during

Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.

 

Anderson, Eric, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., eds.. The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in

Honor of John Hope Franklin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1991.

 

Beiz, Herman. Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the

Civil War Era. New York: Norton, 1978.

 

Bennett, Lerone. Black Power USA: The Human Side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877.

            Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967.

 

Berlin, Ira  et al, eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-67:

Selected  Essays from the Holdings of the National Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

 

Blassingame, John. Black New Orleans, 1860-1880. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1973.

 

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglas’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

 

Bond, Horace Mann. The Education of the Negro in the American Social Order. 2nd 

edition. New York: Octagon, 1966

 

Brown, David Warren. Andrew Johnson and the Negro. Knoxville: University of

Tennessee Press, 1989.

 

Butchart, Ronald E. Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen’s

Education, 1862-1875. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980.

 

Cable, George C. But There Was No Peace. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia

Press, 1984.

 

 

Clay, William L. Just Permanent Interests: Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1991.

New York: Amistad     Press, 1992.

 

Cox., LaWanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership.

1981; Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

 

Crouch, Barry.  The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Texans. Austin: University of Texas

Press, 1992.

 

Crow, Jeffrey J., Paul D. Escott, and Charles L. Flynn, Jr., eds. Race,

Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Burden. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

 

Current, Richard Nelson, ed. Reconstruction in Retrospect: Views from the Turn of the

Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.

 

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

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

 

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Black Reconstruction...in America, 1860-1880. New

York: Russell and  & Russell, 1935.

 

     . “Reconstruction and Its Benefits.” American Historical Review Vol. 15 (July 1910).

 

Dvorak, Katharine L. An African American Exodus: the Segregation of the Southern

Churches. New York: Carlson, 1991.

 

Engs, Robert Francis. Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890.

            Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

 

Fields, Barbara J.  Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the

Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

 

Flynn, Charles L. White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth Century

Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

 

Foner, Eric.  Nothing But Freedom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1983.

 

     . Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Business, 1863-1877. New York: Harper &

Row, 1988.

 

   . A Short History of Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row, 1992.

 

     . Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

 

       and Olivia Mahoney. American’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil

War. New York: Harper Perennial, 1995.

 

Fout, John C., and Maura Shaw Tantillo, eds.  American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender,

and Race since the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

 

Franklin, John Hope  “Jim Crow Goes to School: The Genesis of Legal Segregation.”

South Atlantic Quarterly  LVIII (Spring 1959): 225-35.

 

     . Reconstruction. After the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

 

     . From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. 7th ed. New York:

McGraw-Hill, 1994.

 

Glatthar, Joseph. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White

Officers. New York: The Free Press, 1990.

 

Graham, Leroy. Baltimore, the Nineteenth Century Black Capital.

            Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982.

 

Gutman, Herbert George. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925.

            New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

 

Harlan, Louis R. “Desegregation in New Orleans Public Schools during Reconstruction.”

            American Historical Review LXVII (April 1962): 663-75.

 

Harris, Robert J. The Quest for Equality: The Constitution, Congress and the Supreme

Court. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1960

 

Holt, Thomas. Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina. Urbana:

University of Illinois Press, 1977.

 

Howard, Victor B. Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-

1884. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

 

Kennedy, Stetson. After Appomattox: How the South Won the War. Gainesville:

University Press of Florida, 1995.

 

Klingman, Peter D. Josiah Walls: Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction.

            Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1976.

 

Kousser, J. Morgan and James M. McPhereson. ed.. Region, Race and Reconstruction:

Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

 

 

Lanza, Michael L. Agrarianism and Reconstruction Politics: The Southern Homestead

Act. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

 

Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York:

Vintage Books, 1973.

 

Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture, Black Consciousness.  New York: Oxford University

Press,  1977.

 

Litwack, Leon. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York:

Vintage Books, 1979.

 

Logan, Rayford. The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow

Wilson. New York: Collier, 1965..

           

Lynch, John R.. The Facts of Reconstruction. 1913; New York: Arno, 1968.

 

Maltz, Earl M. Civil Rights, The Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869. Lawrence:

            University Press of Kansas, 1990.

 

Mandle, Jay R. The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation Economy After the

Civil War. Durham: Duke University Press, 1978.

 

     . Not Slave, Not Free: The African American Economic Experience Since the Civil

War. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.

 

McKitrick, Eric. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1960.

 

McPhereson, James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the

Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.

 

     . The Negro’s Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

 

Morgan, Lynda J. Emancipation in Virginia’s Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870. Athens:

University of Georgia Press, 1992.

 

Nieman, Donald G. ed. African American Education in the South, 1865-1900. Vol. 10,

African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South.  New York: Garland, 1994.

 

     ., ed. African Americans and Non-Agricultural Labor in the South, 1865-1900. Vol. 4,

African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland, 1994.

 

 

     , ed. The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Freedom. Vol. 2, African American Life in

the Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland, 1994.

 

     . ed.  From Slavery to Sharecropping: White Land and Black Labor in the Rural

South, 1865-1900. Vol. 3, African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South.  New York: Garland, 1994.

 

     . ed.  The Politics of Freedom: African Americans and the Political Process during

Reconstruction. Vol. 5, African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland, 1994.

 

    , ed. Black Southerners and the Law, 1865-1900. Vol. 12, African American Life in the

            Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland, 1994.

 

     , ed. African Americans and the Emergence of Segregation, 1865-1900. Vol. 11,

African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South. Vol. 11. New York: Garland, 1994.

 

     ,ed. The African American Family in the South, 1861-1900. Vol. 8, African American

Life in the Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland, 1994.

 

     , ed. Black Freedom/White Violence, 1865-1900. Vol. 7, African American Life in the

            Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland, 1900.

 

    , ed. Church and Community Among Black Southerners, 1865-1900. Vol. 9, African

American Life in the Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garland: New York,

1994.

 

     , ed. African American and Southern Politics from Redemption to Disfranchisement.

Vol. 6, African American Life in the Post-Emancipation South. New York: Garlamd. 1994.

 

Nina, Silber. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

 

Novak, Daniel. The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Slavery. Lexington:

University Press of Kentucky, 1978.

 

Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Land

Ownership. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1978.

 

Perman Michael. Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865-

1868. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

 

     . Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1868-80. Chapel Hill: University of North

Carolina Press,1984.

     . Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1863-1877. American History Series. Arlington

Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1988.

 

     , ed. Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Documents and Essays.

            Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath, 1991.

 

Pitre, Merline. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: The Black Leadership of

Texas, 1868-1900. Austin: Eakin Press, 1985.

 

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War. Boston:  Little Brown and Co., 1953.

 

Rabinowitz, Howard, ed. Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era. Urbana:

            University of Illinois Press,  1982.

 

Richardson, Joe Martin. Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association

and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

 

Roark, James L. Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and

Reconstruction. New York: Norton, 1977.

 

Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. New York:

Vintage Books, 1964.

 

Royce, Edward Cary. The Origins of Southern Sharecropping. Philadelphia: Temple

University Press, 1993.

 

Sansing, David G., ed.  What Was Freedom’s Price. Jackson: University Press of

Mississippi, 1978.

 

Saville, Julie. The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South

Carolina, 1860-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

 

Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South. Urbana: University of Illinois

Press, 1990.

 

Shapiro, Herbert. White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to

Montgomery. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

 

Smallwood, James. Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans During

Reconstruction. Port Washington, New York: National University Publications,

1981.

 

Stampp, Kennieth M. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877. New York: Vintage Books,

1976

 

 

    ,  and Leon F. Litwack, eds., Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings.

            Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1969.

 

Sterling, Dorothy. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the 19th Century. New York:

1984.

 

Summers, Mark W. Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity:

Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865-1877. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

 

Trelease, Allen W. White Terror: the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern

Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

 

Tucker , Phillip Thomas. Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier.

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002.

 

Vincent, Charles. Black Legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

 

Wesley, Charles H. and Patricia Romero. Negro Americans in the Civil War: From

Slavery to Citizenship. 2nd ed. New York: Publisher Co., 1969.

 

Wharton, Vernon Lane. The Negro in Mississippi, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1947.

 

Williamson, Joel.  After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.

 

Wilson, Theodore B. The Black Codes of the South. University, Alabama: University of

Alabama Press, 1965.

 

Winegarten, Ruthe. Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph.

            Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

 

Woodson, Carter G. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861. 1915. Reprint, New

York: Arno, Press, 1968.

 

Woodward, C. Vann. Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of

Reconstruction. 2nd ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.

 

 

Welcome Jim Crow: Years of Reaction and Adjustment, 1877-1915

 

Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

 

Aptheker, Herbert, ed. The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois. Amherst, Massachusetts:

            University of Massachusetts Press, 1973.

 

Athearm, Robert G.   A Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80.

Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.

 

Ayers, Edward L. Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction.

            New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

Bailey, Thomas P. Race, Orthodoxy in the South. Reprint.  New York: Negro Universities

            Press, 1969.

 

Bardolph, Richard, ed., The Civil Rights Record: Black Americans and the Law, 1849-

1970. New York: Crowell, 1970.        

 

Barr, Alwyn and Robert A. Calvert. Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times. Austin: