Reconstruction in the United States - (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History) Annotated by David Lincove (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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 Professor of History North Carolina State University

"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, Reconstruction in the United States will undoubtably prove indispensable to scholars for many years to come."-Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University

?[T]he only comprehensive bibliography on Reconstruction....Highly recommended for Southern historians.?-Charleston Daily News

?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

"ÝT¨he only comprehensive bibliography on Reconstruction....Highly recommended for Southern historians."-Charleston Daily News

"[T]he only comprehensive bibliography on Reconstruction....Highly recommended for Southern historians."-Charleston Daily News

"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

"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

About the Author

DAVID A. LINCOVE is Associate Professor and Librarian for history, political science, and philosophy at Ohio State University Libraries in Columbus. His previous publications include The Anglo-American Relationship: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1945-1985 (Greenwood, 1988), which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book.