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• The Reconstruction: A Documentary History of the South After the War, 1865-1877 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963), ed. by James P. Shenton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877 (originally published 1907; this edition New York: Harper and Row, 1962), by William Archibald Dunning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational and Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time (2 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1906-1907), by Walter L. Fleming
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Policy of Congress in Reference to the Restoration of the Union (1867), by Union Republican Congressional Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Political History of The United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction (From April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870) (Washington: Philp and Solomons, 1871), by Edward McPherson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Practical Philosopher and True Senator (Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1866), ed. by Robert Joseph Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Proceedings of the National Union Convention, Held at Philadelphia, August 14, 1866 (initial edition (32 pages); Washington: National Union Executive Committee, 1866), by National Union Convention (1866 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Proceedings of the National Union Convention, Held at Philadelphia, August 14, 1866 (full edition (64 pages); Washington: National Union Executive Committee, 1866), by National Union Convention (1866 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reconstruction, Liberty the Corner-Stone, and Lincoln the Architect: Speech of Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, of Illinois, Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1864 (Washington: Printed by L. Towers, 1864), by Isaac N. Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Record of the New York Democratic convention: Treason and Democracy "One and Indivisable"; Who Are the Leaders? (1868), by Union Republican Congressional Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Remarks of the Hon. Edwin D. Morgan, on Being Called to Preside at the Meeting Held at Cooper Institute, N. Y. city, on the Evening of Oct. 16th, 1867, to Ratify the Republican State Nominations (Washington, DC: Printed at the office of the Great republic, 1867), by Edwin D. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reminiscences of Richard Lathers: Sixty Years of a Busy Life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York (New York: Grafton Press, 1907), by Richard Lathers, ed. by Alvan F. Sanborn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Report on the Condition of the South (1865), by Carl Schurz (Gutenberg text)
• The Reviewers Reviewed: A Supplement to the "War Between the States," Etc., With an Appendix in Review of "Reconstruction," So Called (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872), by Alexander H. Stephens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Speech of Senator Morton, of Indiana, on Reconstruction, in the United States Senate on Friday, Jan. 24th, 1868; To Which are Appended, Resolutions Adopted by the Union Republican State Convention Held at Sacramento, March 31st, 1868 (San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, 1868), by Oliver P. Morton and Republican Party (Calif.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Civil War and Reconstruction (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1937), by J. G. Randall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heritage of the Civil War (New York: Workers Age Publishing Association, ca. 1932), by Will Herberg
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The New York Ladies' Southern Relief Association, 1866-1867: An Account of the Relief Furnished by Citizens of New York City to the Inhabitants of the Devastated Regions of the South Immediately After the Civil War (New York: Mary Mildred Sullivan Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1926), by Anne Middleton Holmes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Address of Dr. A. P. Dostie, Delivered Before the Republican Association of New Orleans, May 9, 1866 (New York: W. P. Tomlinson, 1868), by A. P. Dostie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitution and the Ritual of the Knights of the White Camelia (West Virginia University Documents Relating to Reconstruction #1; 1904), by Knights of the White Camelia, ed. by Walter L. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War, by Richard Taylor (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Dixie After the War: An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1906), by Myrta Lockett Avary, contrib. by Clement A. Evans
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The G. A. R. vs. the Ku-Klux: A Few Suggestions Submitted for the Consideration of the Business Men and the Working Men of the North (Boston: W. F. Brown and Co., c1872), by William Henry Gannon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Nationality vs. Sectionalism: An Appeal to the Laboring Men of the South (1868), by Union Republican Congressional Committee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Peace or War: The Democratic Position Illustrated by Frank P. Blair, Jr (Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee, 1868), by Oliver P. Morton, William M. Stewart, and James W. Nye (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1868), by J. T. Trowbridge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prescript of the * * (1867), by Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
  • PDF at alabama.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (13 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1872), by United States Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (multiple formats at archive.org and MOA)
• Revised and Amended Prescript of the Order of the * * * (1868), by Ku Klux Klan (19th century) (PDF at alabama.gov)
• The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, by Walter L. Fleming (Gutenberg text)
• The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1866), by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
• The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas, by Sidney Andrews (page images at MOA)
• Speech of Maj. Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr., of Kansas: Made Before the National Delegate Convention of Union Soldiers and Sailors at Cooper Institute, New York, July 4, 1868 (1868), by Thomas Ewing (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Speech of Major Gen'l John A. Rawlins, Chief of Staff, U. S. A.: General Grant's Views in Harmony With Congress (1868), by John A. Rawlins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• After the War: A Southern Tour, by Whitelaw Reid (page images at MOA)
• Seymour and Blair: Their Lives and Services; With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction (New York : Richardson and Co., 1868), by David G. Croly
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Eagle Clippings (Brooklyn, NY: D.B. Fulton, ca. 1907), by Jack Thorne
  • illustrated HTML at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Speeches of Hon. Montgomery Blair: 1. On the Monroe Doctrine; 2. Defence of the People of the Southern States (Washington: H. Polkinhorn and Sons, 1865), by Montgomery Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Boys in the Civil War and After, by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Alabama's Tragic Decade: Ten Years of Alabama, 1865-1874 (Birmingham, AL: Webb Book Co., 1940), by John Witherspoon DuBose, ed. by James K. Greer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (New York: Columbia University Press, et al., 1905), by Walter L. Fleming (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Report of Joint Committee on Outrages (parts of a few early pages damaged or censored; Montgomery, AL: Jno. G Stokes and Co., 1868), by Alabama. Legislature (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Clansman: An American Drama, From His Two Famous Novels The Leopard's Spots and The Clansman (program of the play, with related articles; New York: Presented by the Southern Amusement Co., ca. 1905), by Thomas Dixon, contrib. by E. F. Harkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• John March, Southerner, by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900 (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1902), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by C. D. Williams
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1912), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by John Harmon Cassel
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Fool's Errand ("by one of the fools"; New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1879), by Albion W. Tourgée (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (illustrated with scenes from "The Birth of a Nation"; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1915), by Thomas Dixon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

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