American History Since 1877

Resources selected to supplement American History Since 1877 (HSTY 202) taught at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Books in Our Library

• Been in the Storm So Long: the Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack [E185.2 .L571980]
• Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 [E668 .D83 1962]
• Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War [F290 .M9] - Primary Source
• Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War [E470 .T24 1968] - Primary Source
• Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment [E453 .V67 2001]
• Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction [REF E468 .R53 2004] - For use in the library only.
• Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction [F216 .N45 1999]
• Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction [F215 .A94 1993]
• Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 [E668 .F662 1990]
• Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow [E185.6 .L58 1998] - "Continues: Been in the Storm So Long."

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating other books owned by us or for help in using WorldCat, the wordwide database of library books and materials that you can use to interlibrary books owned by other libraries.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on Reconstruction in the TC3 Library Catalog and/or WorldCat.

• African Americans, History, 1863-1877
• Reconstruction
• Slavery, United States
• Southern States, History
• Southern States, Race relations
• United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Personal narratives - Good subject heading to limit results to primary sources.)

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Other Media

You can request materials from media services, which is located directly across from the library.

• Rise and Fall of Jim Crow [4 videocassettes - 56 minutes each] [Media E185.61 .R57 2002] - "Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the 'Jim Crow' system originated and developed."

Web Resources

• America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War
• Freedman's Bureau Online
• From Slavery to Freedom - the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822 - 1909
• New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave. Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man
• The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction
  Legislation of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses. See, for example, p. 349, "To continue the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees." (Making of America Project)
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
• Remembering Jim Crow