American History to 1877

Chapter 15:
Reconstruction, 1865-1877

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY 201 classes (American History to 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection

• Been in the Storm So Long: the Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack [E185.2 .L571980]
• Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois [E668 .D83 1962]
• Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War [F290 .M9] - Primary Source
• Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil R. McMillen. Online in ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection.
• Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War [E470 .T24 1968] - Primary Source
• Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction [E185.93.K16 P34 1992]
• Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment [E453 .V67 2001]
• Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner [E668 .F655 2005]
• From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley. Online in ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection.
• Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction [REF E468 .R53 2004] - For use in the library only.
• Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction [F216 .N45 1999]
• Origins of Southern Sharecropping [HD1478.U62 A13 1993]
• Personal Memoirs [of] Ulysses S Grant [E672 .G76]
• Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction [F215 .A94 1993]
• Reconstruction: the Ending of the Civil War [E668 .C7].
• Reunion and Reaction; the Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction by C. Vann Woodward [E681 .W83 1951]
• Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner [E668 .F662 1990]
• Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack [E185.6 .L58 1998] - "Continues: Been in the Storm So Long."
• When the War Was Over: the Failure of Self-reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867 by Dan T. Carter. Online in ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection.

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat. To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and select "TC3 Catalog."

• African Americans, History, 1877-1964
• Reconstruction, U.S. history, 1865-1877
• United States, Politics and Government, 1865-1877

Multimedia

• African-American Lives 2: A Way Out of No Way - Streaming video from Films on Demand. 54 minutes. "This program features stories like that of Chris Rock’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Julius Caesar Tingman, a black Civil War veteran who was twice elected to the South Carolina State Legislature..."
• Conversation: The Delany Sisters - "In this classic interview with NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Having Our Say authors Sarah and Bessie Delany discuss the trials and triumphs of their first 100 years. Their subjects include life in the South for African-Americans in the early 20th century, coping with the implementation of the Jim Crow laws, and bigotry in the North." Streaming video from Films on Demand. (11 minutes)
• Failure of the Freedman's Bank: Freedom, Finance and Security in 19th Century American Capitalism - Library of Congress lecture by Jonathan Levy, 26 May 2010
• Rise and Fall of Jim Crow [4 videocassettes - 56 minutes each] [Media E185.61 .R57 2002] - "Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the 'Jim Crow' system originated and developed."

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War
• Freedman's Bureau Online
• From Slavery to Freedom - the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822 - 1909
• New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave. Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man by Henry Clay Bruce. Primary Source. (Documenting the American South).
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection University of Texas at Austin.
• The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction - Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses. See, for example, p. 349, "To continue the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees." (Making of America Project)
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
• Remembering Jim Crow

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