A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES AT THE HENRY G. BENNETT LIBRARY ON THE SUBJECT OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877

ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG

Suggested Subject Headings

    Reconstruction
    Reconstruction - Historiography
    Southern States - History - 1865 - 1877
    United States Politics & Government  - 1865 - 1877

REFERENCE SOURCES
 

R 973 Am7a	The Annals of America . 21 Volumes. Reproduces documents and writings written at or near the time an event that occurred in American History. Very useful to get a "now" perspective of an event or issue as it was occurring. The volumes of use to reconstruction: Vol. 9: The Crisis of Union, 1858-1865 Vol. 10: Reconstruction and Industrialization, 1865-1883
R 317.3 D66h	Historical Statistics of the States of the United States: Two Centuries of the Census, 1790-1990 Contains state level data on population, agriculture, and manufacturing for two hundred years.
R 304.6021 UnEne	Negro Population of the United States, 1790-1915 Contains vital statistics, educational statistics and economic statistics.
R 973.003 En1	The Encyclopedia of Southern History. Contains articles dealing with all aspects of the sixteen southern states that were practicing slavery in 1860. Some of the emphases include extensive state histories, articles on slavery, entries on cities, colloquial expressions, economic and geographic terms, literature, biography, battles, and religion. Most entries contain short bibliographies.
>R 973.03 D56	Dictionary of American History. 8 Volumes. Provides brief articles on historical events and terms in politics, economics, law, military battles and organization, science and technology, the arts.
R 973.089 Af8e6	The African-American Almanac These two volumes provide coverage of all aspects of black American history and culture. There is a chronology of important dates and events in African-American History, plus significant documents in African-American history, plus a chapter on slavery in the Americas.
R 973.0496 En1P	Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History 2nd ed. This five volume set contains information on African-American history and culture from 1619 to the present. There are 2,200 entries in this set, of which two-thirds are biographies. The other third are articles dealing with events, historical eras, legal cases, areas of cultural achievement, professions, sports, and places.
R 301.0973 En3	The Encyclopedia of Social History Contains essays on the major issues that have dominated historical writing in the past thirty to forty years. The three volume set is divided into fourteen parts: Part 1: Periods of Social Change--contains essays on the major periods of social change Part 2: Methods & Contexts --Methods historians use Part 3: Construction of Social Identity-- such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender Part 4: Process of Social Change--such a war, immigration and urbanization Part 5: Ethnic and Racial Subcultures-- such as American Indians, Dutch, Germans, Jews, Irish Catholics, Antebellum African American Culture.  Part 6: Regional subcultures -- such as the Ohio Valley, Appalachia, the Deep South and the Mountain West. Part 7: Space & Place --essays on the different types of physical space, such as the frontier, the plantation, rural life in the North and South, the village and town, the city. Part 8: Patterns of Everyday Life-- such as food, manners & etiquette, clothing and personal adornment, housing Part 9: Work and Labor --such as slavery, business culture, women and work, minorities and work, labor in different eras of history  Part 10: Popular Culture and Recreation--such as travel, nightlife, popular literature, music, sports, parades, holidays Part 11: Family History --such as gender roles, courtship and marriage, children Part 12: Social Problems, Social Control and Social Protest--such as crime and punishment, racism, prostitution, alcoholism Part 13: Science, Medicine & Technology--such as health care, public health communications transportation Part 14: Education and Literacy -- such as Public education, print and printing and literacy
R 342.73 En5l	Encyclopedia of American Constitution This five volume set can be used to find how the reconstruction period affected the U.S. constitution. There are articles on constitutional history, and major players in the reconstruction period, such as: Andrew Johnson, Charles Sumner, Charles B. Taney. There are also amendments to the Constitution passed during this period: 13th, 14th and the 15th amendments. Other constitutional and legal issues, such as racial discrimination, impeachment, states rights, dual federalism are included.
R 973.8089967303 F73f	Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction
R 973.713 En3	The Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. 4 Volumes. Published in 1993, this is the first comprehensive reference work on the Confederacy. This four-volume set covers the campaigns and battles of the Civil War, biographical sketches of political leaders, military and naval officers, and other significant men and women. Besides dealing with various aspects of the confederacy, this set also deals with social and cultural topics, such as the roles of American Indians, other ethnic minorities, women, and also the place of religion, education, literature, theater, and music in confederate life. Each of the 1,400 articles contains a bibliography at the end for further research.
R 975.00321 En1	The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. A scholarly work that provides a convenient access to basic facts and bibliographical data about southern cultural patterns and their historical development. Twenty-four major sections focus on such themes as agriculture, education, ethnic life, law, music, mythic South, politics, recreation, social class, and women's life.

There have been many books written by historians about the reconstruction. In the early years of this century, historical writing about the reconstruction period was dominated by William Archibald Dunning.  His view was that the reconstruction period was a bad period in American history, where Scalawags, Northern Carpetbaggers and blacks made a mess of running things in the South and that order was restored when the conservative white governments were restored. So many works written in the first half of the twentieth century reflect this bias.
 
 

973.8 D92r

Dunning, William Archibald.   Reconstruction,  Political and Economic, 1865-1877  Part of the American Nation: A History Series  Harper & Brothers, 1907.

 

973.8 B36c

Beale, Howard K. The Critical Year: A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction.  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930.

 

973.8 B67t

Bowers, Claude G. The Tragic Era:  The Revolution After Lincoln.   Blue Ribbon Books, 1929

 

975 C83s

Coulter, E. Merton.  The South During Reconstruction.  Louisiana State University Press, 1947

U. S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS SOURCES
 
 

917.6 Un3r

Report on the Condition of the South.  Arno Press, 1969.  Reprint of 1865 edition, which was called Message of the President of the United States

 

973.8 Un3r

Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress

 

(In Storage, Basement)

Congressional Globe (1833-1873) A precursor to the Congressional Record, these volumes contain the debates and proceedings of the U. S. Congress, including any about slavery (which there were quite a few). Each volume contains an index. Citations to the C. G. may appear in any one of several indexes or bibliographies named earlier. There is a special volume of the Congressional Globe for the impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson. The entire Congressional Globe is available online at the Library of Congress' A Century of Lawmaking Site at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
 

R 920.073 N21e

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography This large set was begun in 1891 and continued until the 76th one was published in 1984, and contains over 66,000 biographies. Most of the volumes are green, but the last volume, which is an index to the entire set, is brown.

 

R 920.073 W62wa

Who Was Who in America This set contains short biographies on 122,000 persons who died before 1993.

 

R 923.5304 B52

Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch This book contains biographies of all presidents, vice-presidents, an cabinet heads of the U.S. government.

 

R 920.72 N84a

Notable American Women

Humanities Index (paper and CD-ROM)
Index/database to articles, written 1974 to the present, appearing in several hundred journals in the humanities, including history. CD-ROM version is at the LAN (Local Area Network) station.

EBSCOhost
On-line subscription database. Contains magazines and journal articles from several databases.  It can be located on the Internet at the SE Library Homepage, http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm.  Off campus access requires and authorization number which is available ate the Reference Desk to students

FIRSTSEARCH

 International Index to Periodicals (paper)
An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. Articles written between 1907 and 1964 are indexed.

 Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (paper)
A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906.

Social Sciences and Humanities Index (paper)
Index to articles written 1965-1974 appearing in several hundred journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history.

American Heritage 35-Year Cumulative Index
Index to the American Heritage magazine from 1954 to 1989.
 
 

 American Heritage
Well known magazine that has very readable articles of varying length that cover all aspects of United States history. This library has issues from 1954 to the present.

American Historical Review
This very distinguished journal, published by the American Historical Association, contains long scholarly articles on all areas of history. The library has this journal from 1895 to the present.  Indexed in EbscoHost - Academic Search Elite.

 Civil War History
This journal contains scholarly articles on the what it calls the "middle period", which includes the Civil War period, including the period leading up to the Civil War, the Civil War itself, and the Reconstruction period. The library has this journal from 1990 to the present, has 1984-1989 on microfiche. Indexed in Humanities Index.  Indexed in EbscoHost - Academic Search Elite.

 Journal of American History (formerly Mississippi Valley Historical Review)
Published by the Organization of American Historians. An excellent journal on all aspects of American history. This library has volumes from 1964 to the present.  Indexed in EbscoHost -Academic Search Elite.

Journal of Southern History
An excellent journal on Southern History published by the Southern Historical Association. The library has issues from 1935 to the present.  Indexed in EbscoHost - Academic Search Elite.

 New England Quarterly
The library holds volumes from 1946 to the present. This journal says that it is "a historical review of New England Life and Letters."

 New York Times
This major newspaper will be useful to get Northern views of Reconstruction. The floor library has this newspaper from 1851 to the present on microfilm reels. The index to the newspaper during the Civil War period is on microfiche, and is located with the microfiche periodicals.
 

 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
This newspaper will be useful to get Northern views of Reconstruction. http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/index.htm "Founded in 1841 by Isaac Van Anden and Henry Cruse Murphy, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published as a daily newspaper for 114 consecutive years without missing a single edition." Available: 1841-1902.
 

There are far too many sites out there on the Internet to be able to find what you want effectively and quickly without some search tool. There are two main types of search tools available: search, engines and, directories. A search engine is a database of Internet sites. There are many different search engines out on the Internet now, and more seem to be popping up all the time. A list of search tools available on the Internet is found on the SE Library's web page at:  http://www.se.edu/lib/search3.htm
 

OTLN (Oklahoma Technology Library Network)
http://www.auto-graphics.com/cgipac/mmx/yzhe

This is a Union catalog of holdings of libraries throughout the state of Oklahoma. "It is an index to the collections of all the libraries throughout the consortium representing millions of unique titles. It can also include the Union List of Serials, an index to the serials collections of all libraries and, for example, government documents held by the State Library." There are also links the Kansas Union catalog of holdings of libraries throughout Kansas, and likewise there are links to the Texas Union catalog of holdings of libraries though out Texas.
 

American Memory from the Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
The National Digital Library Program is an effort to digitize and deliver electronically the distinctive,  historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. To achieve its goal, this unique public-private program, also works in cooperation with members of the Digital Library Federation and other libraries and archives throughout the United States.... The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently more than 90 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections.  Here are just a few of the collections:
African-Americans Pamphlets 1824-1909,
Coca-cola Advertising Films 1951-1999,
Daguerreotype Photographs, 1839-1864,
Great Plains Photographs: 1880-1920,
Life Histories, Federal Writers Project,
Nineteenth century books, 1850-1877,
Nineteenth century periodicals, 1850-1877,
Southern U.S. Personal Narratives: 1860-1920

Documenting The American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
"Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern  history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the  20th century.....The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS, and the texts come primarily from its Southern holdings. An editorial board guides its development....  As of February 1, 2001, DAS includes 810 books and manuscripts. Most are accompanied by a full bibliographic record. 

The Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history  from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal  articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts."

The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The On-Line Books Page was founded in 1993 by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. He is now a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He remains the editor of the pages, and gladly accepts suggestions for new listings. ."  It contains about 13,000 e-books that are non copyrighted or the author  has given permission for a copyrighted book to be put online. It also contains online serials, such as newspapers, journals,  and magazines.  Many of these serials are old, such as Harpers Monthly (1850-1899), and the North American Review (1815-1900). There is also an archives page which contains links to other online documents and e-books in such areas as:  children's literature, black writers, computers, dissertations, economics, history, literary, military,  music and dance, poetry,  politics, government and law, religion, science, social science and math, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and women.