Reconstruction Era Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: To provide sources for the study of the Reconstruction period in United States history.
Call number areas to browse: E668
Keywords to search:
reconstruction, carpetbaggers, Civil War, freedmen, slavery, Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869), sharecropping, sharecroppers, Freedmen's Bureau
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Reconstruction, African Americans--Politics and government, African Americans--Employment, African Americans--History--1863-1877, African Americans--Southern States--History, Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875, Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- ) --History, Southern States--History--1865-1877, Southern States--Social conditions
United States--Politics and government, United States--Civil War 1861 1865--Reconstruction, United States–History –Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
The Civil War and Reconstruction (E468 .R26)
Been in the Storm so Long : The Aftermath of Slavery (E185.2 .L57 1979)
The Confederate Carpetbaggers (E668 .S96 1988)
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (E668 .S79)
Ordeal by Fire : The Civil War and Reconstruction (E468 .M23)
Reconstruction: after the Civil War.(E668 .F7)
White Terror; the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
(E668 .T7 1971)

Library Resources (r):
Humanities International Complete
Academic Search Complete
America: History and Life
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1883)
History Resource Center: US
OmniFile Full Text Select

Internet Resources:
From About.com - Links dealing the Reconstruction period.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Reconstruction and its Aftermath - The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress

United States Civil War Center - Links to essays on Reconstruction.

Links from Yahoo - Links to Reconstruction web sites.