View source for Radical Republicans

===Primary sources===
* [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=70e7f9526905ba30&idno=ABZ4229.0001.001&view=header&c=moa Barnes, William H., ed. ''History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States.'' (1868) ] useful summary of Congressional activity.
* [[James G. Blaine|Blaine, James]].''Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860'' (1886). By Republican Congressional leader who sometimes cooperated with the Radicals
* Fleming, Walter L. ''Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational, and Industrial'' 2 vol (1906). Uses broad collection of primary sources; vol 1 on national politics; vol 2 on states; [https://books.google.com/books?vid=0OnNK8pM92WrjQK2ijCaciu&id=yukLAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=%22Documentary+History+of+Reconstruction%22&sig=KbFxeYrtnbJAFZRBvK_rApDguQg#PPR11,M1 volume 1 493 pp online] and [https://books.google.com/books?vid=0lH-_oan672uKoftngo_tzc&id=beoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=documentary+plantation&as_brr=1#PPR7,M1 vol 2 480 pp online]
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/holden/holden.html  ''Memoirs of W. W. Holden'' (1911)], North Carolina Scalawag governor
* Hyman, Harold M., ed. ''The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861-1870''. (1967), collection of long political speeches and pamphlets.
* McPherson, Edward. [https://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN04007498&id=kaG2Am68tuAC&pg=PP3&dq=mcpherson+period+of+reconstruction '' The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction'' (1875)], large collection of speeches and primary documents, 1865–1870, complete text online. [The copyright has expired.]
* Nicolay, John  and John Hay, "The Wade-Davis Manifesto"  ''Century'' (July 1889): pp 414–21 [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABP2287-0038-89 online version] hoe Lincoln vetoes the Radical plan for Reconstruction; Nicolay and Hay were top aides to Lincoln
* Palmer, Beverly Wilson and Holly Byers Ochoa, eds. ''The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens'' 2 vol (1998), 900pp; his speeches plus and letters to and from Stevens
* Palmer, Beverly Wilson, ed. ''The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner'' 2 vol (1990); vol 2 covers 1859-1874