The Reconstruction Era (1863-1877)

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 Paperback – May 1, 2001
by John C. Rodrigue (Author)

Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Paperback – February 1, 2016
by Heather Andrea Williams

The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields (True Crime) Paperback – Illustrated, October 16, 2017
by C. Dier (Author)

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike (True Crime) Paperback – November 14, 2016
by John DeSantis (Author), Foreword by Burnell Tolbert (Foreword)

Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana - 2021 by Brian K. Mitchell (Author) and Barrington S. Edwards (Illustrator)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Paperback – February 22, 1999
by Tony Horwitz

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury) Paperback – October 15, 2024
by Kidada E. Williams (Author)

Black Homesteaders of the South Paperback – October 24, 2022
by Bernice Bennett (Author)

Native Guard: Poems Paperback – April 3, 2007
by Natasha Trethewey (Author)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
by LeeAnna Keith (Author)

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Studies in Legal History) New Edition by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross

Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and The Rise of Jim Crow Paperback, Illustrated - April 7, 2020 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.