Provides the definitive guide to literature about Reconstruction published from 1877 to 1998.
The only comprehensive bibliography on Reconstruction, this book provides the definitive guide to literature published from 1877 to 1998. In over 2,900 entries, the work covers a broad range of topics including politics, agriculture, labor, religion, education, race relations, law, family, gender studies, and local history. It encompasses the years of the Civil War through the conclusion of the 1876 election and the end of the federal government's official role in reforming the postwar South and protecting the rights of Black citizens. In detailed annotations, the book covers a range of literature from scholarly and popular studies to published memoirs, letters and documents, as well as reference sources and teaching tools.
The issues of Reconstruction—civil rights, states' rights and federal-state relations, racism, nationalism, government aid to individuals—continue to be relevant today, and the literature on Reconstruction is large. This book provides a systematic and comprehensive bibliographic guide to that literature. It is organized by topics and geographical regions and states, thereby emphasizing the local diversity in the South. In addition to a variety of literature, it covers the relevant Supreme Court cases through 1883, provides full citations to federal acts and cases cited, and includes the texts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. The book will be useful to scholars and students researching a wide range of topics in Southern history, constitutional history, and national politics in post Civil War United States.
Foreword, by Eric Foner
Preface
Chronology of Major Events in Reconstruction
Document Collections, Reference Sources, and Teaching
General Historiography and Surveys
National Politics of Reconstruction
Regional Studies on Reconstruction in the South
State and Local Studies on Reconstruction in the South: Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Indian Territories
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington D.C.
West Virginia
Reconstruction in Northern and Western States
Appendix
Author Index
Subject Index
Reviews
A model of the thorough, scholarly, easy-to-use bibliography, Lincove's is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of scholarship on the Reconstruction period, incorporating the diverse views of Reconstruction that have appeared in the last 30 years....All 2,904 entries (except dissertations) have solid, substansive annotations that often include cross-references....Lincove skillfully addresses a clear scholarly need with this bibliography.—Choice
Researchers of the Reconstruction period of U.S. history will find this unique reference source invaluable. It is highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.—Reference & User Services Quarterly
Endorsements
It is indeed a daunting achievement not simply to compile this extensive listing of scholarly writings on Reconstruction, including selected scholarship on fiction, but to offer the prospective researcher a well-considered introduction to each and every item selected except for dissertations. Because of the range of subjects covered from national and local politics to law, economics, religion, education, gender relations, violence, and numerous other aspects of the period and the extremely valuable brief comments on each entry, ^IReconstruction in the United States^R will undoubtably prove indispensable to scholars for many years to come.—Eric Foner^LDeWitt Clinton Professor of History^LColumbia University
I am tremendously impressed by David Lincove's monumental Reconstruction bibliography. The coverage of the scholarly literature is outstanding. The annotations are thorough, accurate, and to the point. This is the bibliographical tool on Reconstruction that librarians, students, and historians have been waiting for. It is destined to be the definitive study.—John David Smith^LProfessor of History^LNorth Carolina State University
