The Reconstruction Era (1863-1877)

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
by Justene Hill Edwards (Author)

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

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)

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

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation Of The Plantation Household
by Thavolia Glymph

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

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

Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery
By Mary Niall Mitchell

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Paperback – Abridged, January 6, 2015
by Eric Foner

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)

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