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.

Librarians Lincove and Treadway have compiled a collection of 1,953 titles, published between 1945 and 1985 but covering Anglo-American relations from their formal inception in 1783 through their finest hour in 1985. . . . This model bibliography provides the sort of comprehensive reading list so necessary for upper-division and graduate research. Choice This interdisciplinary bibliography detailing the special relationship between the United States and Great Britain covers scholarly writing from 1945 to 1985 that treats the interactions between the two countries during the period 1783 to the mid-1980s. It provides comprehensive coverage of books, essays, journal articles, and doctoral dissertations from universities and colleges in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada. All sources except the dissertations are annotated.