Redeemers/Bibliography

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Secondary sources

• Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1993). online edition
• Baggett, James Alex. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003), a statistical study of 732 Scalawags and 666 Redeemers.
• Blum Edward J. and W. Scott Poole, eds. Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction. Mercer University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8655-4987-7.
• Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (1935), explores the role of African Americans during Reconstruction
• Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (2002), a major synthesis
• Garner, James Wilford. Reconstruction in Mississippi (1901), a classic Dunning School text. online edition
• Garrison, Ellen, “Reactionaries or Reformers? Membership and Leadership of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Winter 2006), 505–24.
• Gillette, William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879 (1979)
• Going, Allen J. "Alabama Bourbonism and Populism Revisited." Alabama Review 1983 36(2): 83-109. Issn: 0002-4341
• Roger L. Hart, Redeemers, Bourbons, and Populists: Tennessee, 1870-1896 LSU Press, 1975.
• Jones, Robert R. "James L. Kemper and the Virginia Redeemers Face the Race Question: A Reconsideration." Journal of Southern History 1972 38(3): 393-414. Issn: 0022-4642 Fulltext: in Jstor
• King, Ronald F. "A Most Corrupt Election: Louisiana in 1876." Studies in American Political Development 2001 15(2): 123-137. Issn: 0898-588x Fulltext: in Cambridge Journals
• King, Ronald F. "Counting the Votes: South Carolina's Stolen Election of 1876." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2001 32(2): 169-191. Issn: 0022-1953 Fulltext: in Project Muse, Swetswise, Jstor and Ebsco
• Moore, James Tice. "Redeemers Reconsidered: Change and Continuity in the Democratic South, 1870-1900" in the Journal of Southern History, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 1978) , pp. 357-378. in JSTOR
• Moore, James Tice. "Origins of the Solid South: Redeemer Democrats and the Popular Will, 1870-1900." Southern Studies 1983 22(3): 285-301. Issn: 0735-8342
• Perman, Michael. The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879 (1984).
• Perman, Michael "Counter Reconstruction: The Role of Violence in Southern Redemption", in Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr, eds. The Facts of Reconstruction (1991) pp. 121-140.
• Polakoff, Keith I. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction (1973)
• Rabonowitz, Howard K. Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1977)
• Richardon, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction (2001)
• Wallenstein, Peter. From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (1987).
• Wiggins; Sarah Woolfolk. The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865—1881 (1991) online edition
• Williamson, Edward C. Florida Politics in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 (1976).
• Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951). emphasizes economic conflict between rich and poor. online edition at ACLS History ebooks

Primary Sources

• 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; volume 1 online 493 pp and vol 2 online 480 pp
• Hyman, Harold M., ed. The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861-1870. (1967), collection of longer speeches by Radical leaders
• Lynch, John R. The Facts of Reconstruction(1913) Online text by African American member of the United States Congress during Reconstruction era.