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==References and further reading== ===Secondary sources=== * {{cite book|last=Belz |first=Herman |title=Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era |url=https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnco00herm |url-access=registration |publisher=Fordham University Press |date=1998}} * {{cite book|last=Belz |first=Herman |title=Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era |url=https://archive.org/details/emancipationequa0000belz |url-access=registration |date=1978}} * {{cite book|last=Belz |first=Herman |title=A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedman's Rights, 1861β1866 |date=2000}} * {{cite book|author-link=Michael Les Benedict | last=Benedict |first=Michael Les |title=The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson |date=1999}} * {{cite journal|last=Blackburn |first=George M. |title=Radical Republican Motivation: A Case History |journal=The Journal of Negro History |volume=54 |number=2 |date=April 1969 |pages=109β126 |jstor=2716688 |doi=10.2307/2716688 |s2cid=149744005 }} Re Michigan Senator [[Zachariah Chandler]] * {{cite book|author-link=Claude Bowers |last=Bowers |first=Claude G. |title=The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.157540 |date=1929}} 567 pages, intense anti-Radical narrative by prominent Democrat * Brands, H. W. ''The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace'' (Doubleday, 2013) [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Man_Who_Saved_the_Union/fGn2t-tuQBMC?hl=en online] * {{cite book|last=Castel |first=Albert E. |title=The Presidency of Andrew Johnson |url=https://archive.org/details/presidencyofandr00albe |url-access=registration |date=1979|publisher=Regents Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0700601905}} * {{cite book |author-link=David Herbert Donald|last=Donald |first=David |title=Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man |url=https://archive.org/details/charlessumnerrig0000dona |url-access=registration |date=1970}} Major critical analysis. * {{cite book|last=Donald |first=David |title=Lincoln |url=https://archive.org/details/lincoln00dona |url-access=registration |date=1996}} A major scholarly biography * {{cite book |author-link=Doris Kearns Goodwin|last=Goodwin |first=Doris Kearns |title=Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |url=https://archive.org/details/teamofrivalspoli00good |url-access=registration |date=2005|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0684824901 }} * {{cite book |author-link=Eric Foner |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863β1877 |date=2002}} Major synthesis; many prizes * {{cite book |author-link=Eric Foner |last=Foner |first=Eric |title=A Short History of Reconstruction |date=1990 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-096431-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofre00eric }} Abridged version * {{cite book|last=Harris |first=William C.| author-link=William C. Harris (historian)|title=With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union |date=1997}} Lincoln as moderate and opponent of Radicals. * Howard, Victor B. ''Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860β1870'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2014) [https://scholar.archive.org/work/vweit52z55crfbw4bqbartrmgy/access/wayback/https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1139&context=upk_united_states_history online] * Lyons, Philip B. ''Statesmanship and Reconstruction: Moderate versus Radical Republicans on Restoring the Union after the Civil War'' (Lexington Books, 2014). * {{cite book|author-link=William S. McFeely |last=McFeely |first=William S. |title=Grant: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/grantbiography00mcfe |url-access=registration |date=1981|isbn=978-0393013726 }} Pulitzer Prize. * {{cite book|last=McKitrick |first=Eric L. |title=Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction |date=1961}} * {{cite book|last=Milton |first=George Fort |title=The Age of Hate: Andrew Johnson and the Radicals |date=1930 }} Hostile * {{cite book |author-link=Allan Nevins |last=Nevins |first=Allan |title=Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration |url=https://archive.org/details/hamiltonfishinne0000nevi |url-access=registration |date=1936}} Pulitzer Prize. * {{cite book |author-link=James G. Randall|last=Randall |first=James G. |title=Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure |date=1955}} Fourth and final volume of a biography. The main title of all four volumes is ''Lincoln the President''; the fourth volume was completed by [[Richard N. Current]] upon Randall's death. * {{cite book |last=Rhodes |first=James Ford |title=History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds06rhoduoft |date=1920}} Volumes 6 and 7. Highly detailed political narrative. * Richards, Leonard L. ''Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment'' (University of Chicago Press, 2015). * {{cite book |author-link=Heather Cox Richardson|last=Richardson |first=Heather Cox |title=West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War |date=2007}} * {{cite book|last=Richardson |first=Heather Cox |title=The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865β1901 |date=2004}} * {{cite journal|last=Riddleberger |first=Patrick W. |title=The Break in the Radical Ranks: Liberals vs Stalwarts in the Election of 1872 |journal=The Journal of Negro History |volume=44 |number=2 |date=April 1959 |pages=136β157 |jstor=2716035 |doi=10.2307/2716035 |s2cid=149957268 }} * {{cite book|last=Ross |first=Earle Dudley |title=The Liberal Republican Movement |date=1910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZX2q-h-xYFcC }} Scholarly history * {{cite book |author-link=Kenneth M. Stampp|last=Stampp |first=Kenneth M. |title=The Era of Reconstruction, 1865β1877 |date=1967}} * {{cite book |author-link=Brooks D. Simpson|last=Simpson |first=Brooks D. |title=Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861β1868 |url=https://archive.org/details/letushavepeace00broo |url-access=registration |date=1991|publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0807819661 }} * {{cite book|last=Simpson |first=Brooks D. |title=The Reconstruction Presidents |url=https://archive.org/details/reconstructionpr0000simp |url-access=registration |date=1998|publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0700608966 }} * Summers, Mark Wahlgren. ''Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid Under the Radical Republicans, 1865β1877'' (Princeton University Press, 2014) [https://books.google.com/books?id=oeD_AwAAQBAJ&dq=Radical+Republican&pg=PP1 online]. * {{cite book |author-link=Hans L. Trefousse|last=Trefousse |first=Hans |title =Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction |date=1991}} * {{cite book|last=Trefousse |first=Hans L. |title=The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vanguard for Racial Justice |url=https://archive.org/details/radicalrepublica0000tref |url-access=registration |date=1969 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York}} Favorable to Radicals * {{cite book|last=Trefousse |first=Hans L. |title=Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian |date=2001}} Favorable biography. * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWYWBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR13|title=The Radical Republicans|first=Hans L. |last=Trefousse|date=2014|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8041-5392-8}} * {{cite book |author-link=T. Harry Williams|last=Williams |first=T. Harry |title=Lincoln and the Radicals |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.78258 |date=1941}} Hostile to Radicals * {{cite book|last=Zuczek |first=Richard |title=Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era |date=2006}} 2 vol. ===Historiography and memory=== * {{cite journal|last=Bogue |first=Allan G. |title=Historians and Radical Republicans: A Meaning for Today |journal=Journal of American History |volume=70 |number=1 |date=June 1983 |pages=7β34 |jstor=1890519 |doi=10.2307/1890519 }} * Keith, LeeAnna. ''When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War'' (2020) [https://www.amazon.com/When-Was-Grand-Radical-Republican/dp/0809080311 excerpt]; also [https://networks.h-net.org/node/11717/reviews/6266230/bekken-keith-when-it-was-grand-radical-republican-history-civil-war online review] * {{cite journal|author-link=Roger D. Launius |last=Launius |first=Roger D. |title=Williams and the Radicals: An Historiographical Essay |journal=Louisiana History |date=1987 |volume=28 |number=2 |pages=141β164 |jstor=4232573 }} * Leipold, Bruno, Karma Nabulsi, and Stuart White, eds. ''Radical republicanism: Recovering the tradition's popular heritage'' (Oxford University Press, 2020) [https://books.google.com/books?id=M4_UDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Radical+Republican%22+historiography&pg=PP1 online]. * {{cite journal |last=Scroggs |first=Jack B. |title=Southern Reconstruction: A Radical View |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=24 |number=4 |date=November 1958 |pages=407β429 |jstor=2954670 |doi=10.2307/2954670 }} * {{Cite journal |last=Zander |first=Cecily N. |date=March 2023 |title=Whither the Radicals? |journal=[[Reviews in American History]] |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=91β102 |doi=10.1353/rah.2023.a900725}} ===Primary sources=== * [http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-1865.htm ''Harper's Weekly''] news magazine * [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=70e7f9526905ba30&idno=ABZ4229.0001.001&view=header&c=moa Barnes, William H., ed. ''History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States.'' (1868)] useful summary of Congressional activity. * [[James G. Blaine|Blaine, James]].''Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860'' (1886). By Republican Congressional leader [https://books.google.com/books?id=3GQFAAAAQAAJ&q=intitle:twenty+inauthor:blaine full text online] * 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=1OoLAAAAIAAJ&q=intitle:documentary+intitle:history+inauthor:fleming full text of vol. 2] * Hyman, Harold M., ed. ''The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861β1870''. (1967), collection of long political speeches and pamphlets. * [[Edward McPherson]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=kaG2Am68tuAC&dq=mcpherson+period+of+reconstruction&pg=PP3 ''The Political History of the United States of America During the Period of Reconstruction'' (1875)], large collection of speeches and primary documents, 1865β1870, complete text online. [The copyright has expired.] * Palmer, Beverly Wilson and Holly Byers Ochoa, eds. ''The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens'' 2 vol (1998), 900 pp; his speeches plus and letters to and from Stevens * Palmer, Beverly Wilson, ed/ ''The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner'' 2 vol (1990); vol 2 covers 1859β1874 * [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0012-69 Charles Sumner, "Our Domestic Relations: or, How to Treat the Rebel States" ''Atlantic Monthly'' September 1863], early Radical manifesto ===Yearbooks=== * ''American Annual Cyclopedia...1868'' (1869), [https://books.google.com/books?id=maIoAAAAYAAJ online], highly detailed compendium of facts and primary sources; details on every state * ''American Annual Cyclopedia...for 1869'' (1870) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyMVAAAAYAAJ online edition] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ4YAAAAIAAJ ''Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia...for 1870''] (1871) * [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jp8YAAAAIAAJ ''American Annual Cyclopedia...for 1872''] (1873) * ''Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia...for 1873'' (1879) [https://books.google.com/books?id=c6QoAAAAYAAJ online edition] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=2WcMAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia...for 1875''] (1877) * ''Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ...for 1876'' (1885) [https://books.google.com/books?id=r6MYAAAAIAAJ online edition] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=Do4EAAAAYAAJ ''Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia...for 1877''] (1878) {{American Civil War}} {{Reconstruction era}} [[Category:1854 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1877 disestablishments in the United States]] [[Category:Activists for African-American civil rights|*]] [[Category:American civil rights activists|*]] [[Category:Radical Republicans| ]] [[Category:American Civil War political groups]] [[Category:Factions in the Republican Party (United States)]] [[Category:Reconstruction Era]] [[Category:Civil rights in the United States]] [[Category:History of the Republican Party (United States)]]
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