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*Ellen Carol DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869 (1978)
*Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988)
*Leon Litwack, Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)
*David N. Montgomery, Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans (1981)
George C. Rable, But There was no Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984)
*Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1860-1890 (1978)
Scott Reynolds, Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence and Reconstruction (1999)
*James Roark, Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977)
Mark W. Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (1993)
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Bartolomé de Las Casas, The Destruction of the Indies
Frederick Douglass, Selected Speeches and Writings
Jonathan Earle, John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
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