Resources on Reconstruction
in the MSU Libraries

 

Last updated : June 13, 2007  Page Editor: Michael Unsworth


Online Resources
Print Resources:
Reference | Biography
Primary Sources:
Personal Papers | Documents, Compilations, Etc.


Online Resources

American Periodical Series (APS)

HarpWeek -- Online version of Harper's Weekly

New York Times -- On microfilm in the Microforms Library in the Major Newspapers Microfilm section. These newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title. Indexes:


Print Resources
Reference

ABC-CLIO Companion To American Reconstruction, 1862-1877. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1996. REF E668 .R53 1996

Historical Dictionary Of Reconstruction. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.REF E668 .T66 1991

Biography

Black Congressional Reconstruction Orators and Their Orations, 1869-1879. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976. MAIN E185.2 .B52

Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1982. MAIN E185.92 .S68 1982

Voices from the Reconstruction Years, 1865-1877. Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace, c1999. MAIN E668 .V89 1999

Primary Sources: Personal Papers

Chandler, Zachariah. Zachariah Chandler Papers, 1854-1899. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, MICRO Microfilm 4023

Grant, Ulysses S.:

Johnson, Andrew:

Stevens, Thaddeus. The Selected Papers Of Thaddeus Stevens. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997- . 2 v. MAIN E415.6 .S742 1997

Welles, Gideon. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson:

 

Primary Sources: Compilation, Documents, etc.

Civil War And Reconstruction : An Eyewitness History. New York : Facts on File, c1991. OVERSIZE E601 .K569 1991.

Documentary History Of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational, And Industrial, 1865 To 1906:

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution : An Inquiry Into The Civil War And Reconstruction. New York : The New Press, c1996. MAIN E464 .F74 1996

A Mexican View Of America In The 1860s : A Foreign Diplomat Describes The Civil War And Reconstruction. Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1991. MAIN E464 .C672513 1991

A Political Manual For 1866 And 1867, Of Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Politico-Military, And General Facts, From April 15, 1865 To April 1, 1867, And Including The Development Of The Presidential And The Congressional Plan Of Reconstruction, With The Pecularities Of Each. Washington, D.C., [Stereotyped by M'Gill & Witherow] 1867.SPECIAL JK8 .M3

Reconstruction, 1865-1877. New York, Free Press [1970] MAIN E668 .J66

Reconstruction, the Negro, and the New South. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press [1973] MAIN E185.2 .C77 1973

The Trouble They Seen : Black People Tell The Story Of Reconstruction. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1976. MAIN E185.2 .T83

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Reconstruction. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the first session, Thirty-ninth Congress. Washington, Govt. Pint. Off., 1866. MAIN E668 .U585

United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Report Of The Joint Select Committee Appointed To Inquire In To The Condition Of Affairs In The Late Insurrectionary States, So Far As Regards The Execution Of The Laws, And The Safety Of The Lives And Property Of The Citizens Of The United States And Testimony Taken. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1872. BUSINESS KF30 1872 .A2a

Other Congressional Documents: Consult the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index. Pt. II 35th-45th Congresses, 1857-1979: Subject Index (GD CONG. REF. KF49.C5 C65). Check the entrires for "Confederacy" (p. 253), "Reconstruction" (p. 971), and "South" (p. 1105-1106). The actual documents are located in the Government Documents Microforms Collections, Center Wing, Basement.


Locations

BUSINESS Business Library, Basement, Law College Building

GD CONG. REF. Government Documents Congressional Reference, 1st Floor, East Wing
MAIN General Collection in the Main Library
MICRO Microforms Library, 2nd Floor, West Wing
OVERSIZE Oversize Collection, Basement, Center Wing
REF Reference Collection, 1st Floor, East Wing
SPECIAL Special Collections, Basement, East Wing


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