The American Nation, a History (Volume 22); From Original Sources by Associated Scholars

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII CRITICAL ESSAY ON AUTHORITIES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AIDS THE best general guide to the sources for the period is the foot-note references of James Ford Rhodes, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (7 vols., 1893-1906), V.-VII. J. N. Larned, Literature of American History (1902), contains an annotated list of works dealing with the period; good but incomplete. W. L. Fleming gives a very useful list in New York State Education Department, Syllabus No. g8, The Reconstruction of the Seceded States (1905). References appended to articles in J. J. Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science (3 vols., 1881-1884), are of value for the constitutional issues of reconstruction, and are considerably extended in the reprint of those articles edited by J. A. Woodburn, as American Political History (2 vols., 1905), II. The Cambridge Modern History, VII., The United States *' (1903), 818-822, has a very useful list, but without evaluation of the works. GENERAL SECONDARY WORKS The only comprehensive narrative covering the years of reconstruction in a scientific spirit is James Ford Rhodes, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (7 vols., 1893-1906), V.-VII. Woodrow Wilson, History of the American People (5 vols., 1902), includes a brief but just and well-proportioned sketch of the period in vol. V. The years after 1870 are very well treated by E. Benjamin Andrews, The United States in Our Own Time (1903). ffohn W. Burgess, Reconstruction and the Constitution (1902), teals incisively with the legal and political aspects of the period. William A. Dunning, Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction (rev. ed., 1904), analyzes some of the principal constitutional and administrative developments in the rehabilitation of the South. James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of ...