The Civil War and Reconstruction
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The South, 1865-1867 (University State University Press, 1985)
Catton, Bruce, America Goes To War: The Civil War and Its Meaning in American
Culture (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)
Clark, Thomas D., The South Since Reconstruction (Bobbs-Merrill, 1973)
Crouch, Barry A., The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Texans (University of Texas
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Cox, William, The Western Reserve and the Fugitive Slave Law: A Prelude to
the Civil War (Cleveland Ohio, 1920)
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Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others (McFarland, 2003)
Faust, Drew Gilpin, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity
in the Civil War South (Louisiana State University Press, 1988)
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Politics (Oxford University Press, 1978)
Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lee (Scribner, 1961)
Genovese, Eugene D., Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Vintage
Books, 1976)
Gienapp, William E., Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography (Oxford
University Press, 2002)
Greenberg, Kenneth S., ed., The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents
(Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996)
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Migration (University of Chicago Press, 1989)
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from Slavery to the Great Migration (Harvard University Press, 2003)
Hearn, Chester G., Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry during the Civil War (Louisiana
State University Press, 1996)
Hedrick, Joan D., Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Holt, Michael F., The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and
The Coming of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, 2004)
Holt, Thomas C., Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina
during Reconstruction (University of Illinois Press, 1977)
Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers, Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the
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Kinshasa, Kwando Mbiassi, Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of
the Civil War (McFarland & Co., 2006)
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2005)
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Text (HarperCollins Publishers, 1993)
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1979)
Massey, Mary Elizabeth and Jean V. Berlin, Women in the Civil War (University of
Nebraska Press, 1994)
McMillen, Neil R., Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
(University of Illinois Press, 1990)
McPherson, James M., Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (Alfred A.
Knopf, 1982)
_____. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press 1988)
Morrison, Michael A., Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest
Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press,
1997)
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(HarperCollins Publishers, 1997)
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Turner Revolt to the Fugitive Slave Law (Milestones in Black American
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1993)
Pierce, Francis Marshal, The Battle of Gettysburg : The Crest-wave of the American
Civil War (Olde Soldier Books, 1987)
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1860 (Louisiana State University Press, 2000)
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To Reconstruct America (Walker & Co., 2005)
Thomas, Brook, ed., Plessy v. Ferguson (Bedford Books, 1997)
Trelease, Allen W., White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern
Reconstruction (Louisiana State University Press, 1995)
Waugh, John C., On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It
Changed the Course of American History (Scholarly Resources, 2003)
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., On Lynchings (Humanity Books, 2002)
Wolff, Gerald W., The Kansas-Nebraska Bill :Party, Section, and the Coming of the
Civil War (Revisionist Press, 1977)
Woodward, C. Vann, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (Louisiana State
University Press, 1971)
_____, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End
of Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 1991)