Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) books

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.

Samuel Gibbs French

Samuel G. French’s “Two Wars” is a sprawling autobiographical memoir that stitches together his experiences…

The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States

Walter L. Fleming

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Dixie After the War An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond

Myrta Lockett Avary

The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny

Orestes Augustus Brownson

A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868

J. T. Trowbridge

After the War: A Southern Tour. May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866

Whitelaw Reid

The Facts of Reconstruction

John Roy Lynch

The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History

Hilary A. Herbert

Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction

Charles H. McCarthy

Report on the Condition of the South

Carl Schurz

Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1866-1876

John William Burgess

La emancipacion de los esclavos en los Estados Unidos

Rafael M. de Labra