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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Belz, Herman. ''A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and
Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866.'' (1976). 199 pp. by a leading conservative historian [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=JDbLcWQTnBNJTyMMChDYzXnvK4yZXVGh7L8z13hwrhSCdyBTbbFy!830200437!-53255609?a=o&d=114382183 online edition]
* Du Bois, W.E.B. "Reconstruction and its Benefits," ''American Historical Review'', 15 (July, 1910), 781—99 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28191007%2915%3A4%3C781%3ARAIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T JSTOR], by leading black historian
* Du Bois, W.E.B. "Reconstruction and its Benefits," ''American Historical Review'', 15 (July, 1910), 781—99 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28191007%2915%3A4%3C781%3ARAIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T JSTOR], by leading black historian
* Foner, Eric. ''Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.'' 2005. 268 pp. popular version from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective
* Foner, Eric. ''Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.'' 2005. 268 pp. popular version from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective
* Litwack, Leon. ''Been in the Storm So Long'' (1979). Pulitzer Prize; focus on the African Americans from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective
* Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R. ''Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900.'' (1999). 345
pp.
* Litwack, Leon. ''Been in the Storm So Long'' (1979). Pulitzer Prize; focus on the African Americans from [[neoabolitionist]] perspective
* Rabinowitz, Howard N. ''Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890.'' (1978). 441 pp.
* Ransom, Roger L. and Sutch, Richard. ''One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.'' (1977). 409 pp. statistical studies
===Primary sources===
===Primary sources===
* Berlin, Ira, ed/ ''Freedom: A Documentary History of
Emancipation, 1861-1867.'' (1982- ), multivolume collection
* 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; [http://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 [http://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]
* 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; [http://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 [http://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]