Archives and Special Collections
PO Box 1848
University, MS 38677
3rd floor of the J.D. Williams Library
Email: archivesdept@olemiss.edu
Open Monday through Friday 9am - 4pm (except holidays)
The Archives & Special Collections holds the following publications with historic examinations of Reconstruction in Mississippi. Researchers interested in particular individuals or locales during that period should conduct appropriate searches on the library catalog. Community and county histories, in particular, are likely to provide useful information.
Blanche Ames. Adelbert Ames, 1835-1933, General Senator, Governor, the Story of His Life and Times and Integrity as a Soldier and Statesman in the Service of the United States of America throughout the Civil War and in Mississippi in the Years of Reconstruction. New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964. Call Number: F341 A42 1964.
Nancy Bercaw. "Politics of Household During the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, 1861-1876." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1996. Call Number: F347 Y3 B37 1996a.
Nancy Bercaw. Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Call Number: F347 M6 B47 2003.
Bradley G. Bond. Mississippi: A Documentary History. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Includes a section on Reconstruction. Call Number: F341 B66 2003.
Robert L. Brandfon. Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Call Number: F347 Y3 B7.
Elizabeth Caldwell. "Reconstruction in Yazoo County, Mississippi." M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1931. Call Number: F347 Y2 C35 1931.
Hodding Carter. The Angry Scar: The Story of Reconstruction. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959. Call Number: E668 C3.
Hodding Carter. Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969. Call Number: PN4857 C3.
Luke Ward Conerly. Pike County, Mississippi, 1789-1876: Pioneer Families and Confederate Soldiers, Reconstruction and Redemption. Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing, 1909. Call Number: F347 P6 C7 1909.
James Tyson Currie. "Vicksburg, 1863-1870: The Promise and the Reality of Reconstruction on the Mississippi." Thesis, University of Virginia, 1975. Call Number: F349 V6 C87.
James Tyson Currie. Enclave: Vicksburg and Her Plantations, 1863-1870. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. Call Number: F349 V6 C869.
Dewey Denton. "Sidelights on Labor Problems in Mississippi During the Period of Reconstruction with Special Reference to Freed Labor; a Sketch of the General Economic Problems of Labor in This State During the Reconstruction Period Following the Civil War and Differenct Phases of the Labor Problems of Mississippi." M.A. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1930.
Michael William Fitzgerald. "The Union League Movement in Alabama and Mississippi: Politics and Agriculture in the Deep South During Reconstruction." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986. Call Number: F341 F58 1985a.
Noralee Frankel. Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Call Number: E185.93 M6 F73 1999.
Charles Ray Fulton. "A History of Kemper County, Mississippi, 1860-1910." M.A. Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1968. Call Number: F347 K3 F8.
James Wilford Garner. Reconstruction in Mississippi. New York: Macmillan, 1901. Call Number: F341 G23.
James Wilford Garner. Reconstruction in Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. Reprint of 1901 edition, with new introduction. Call Number: F341 G23 1968.
William C. Harris. "Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi: Political and Economic Aspects." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama, 1965. Call Number: F341 H29.
William C. Harris. Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967. Call Number: F341 H29 1967.
William C. Harris. The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisana State University Press, 1978. Call Number: F341 H28.
Walter McClusky Hurns. "Post-Reconstruction Municipal Politics in Jackson, Mississippi." Ph.D. Dissertation, Kansas State University, 1989. Call Number: F349 J13 H87 1989a.
Broadus Bryant Jackson. Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi: Mirror of Democracy in America. Jackson, MI: Town Square Books, 1998. Call Number: F341 J33 1998.
F.C. Jenkins et al. Reconstruction in Southern Counties of Mississipip and Other Theses. Typescripts written by history students under the
direction of Dr. Franklin L. Riley at the University of Mississippi, 1902-1909. Call Number: F341 R422.
Frank Johnston. Suffrage and Reconstruction in Mississippi. Reprint from the Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. 6. Call Number: F341 J6.
John Roy Lynch. The Facts of Reconstruction. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1913. Call Number: E668 L98.
John Seymore McNeily. Climax and Collapse of Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1874-1876. Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. 12. Call Number: F341 M3 C4.
Milton Meltzer. Freedom Comes to Mississippi: The Story of Reconstruction. Chicago: Follett, 1970. Juvenile literature. Call Number: F341 M47 1970.
Clark Leonard Miller. "'Let Us Die to Make Men Free': Political Terrorism in Post-Reconstruction Mississippi, 1877-1896." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1983. Call Number: F341 M473 1984.
Ross H. Moore. "Social and Economic Conditions in Mississippi During Reconstruction." Ph.D. Dissertation, Duke University, 1937. Call Number: F341 M72.
David G. Sansing. "The Role of the Scalawag in Mississippi Reconstruction." M.A. Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969. Call Number: F341 S3.
Claude P. Smith. "Immigration into Mississippi during Reconstruction." M.A. Thesis, Mississippi College, 1968. Call Number: F350 A1 S5.
Dale Edwina Smith. The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868. New York: Garland Pub., 1999. Call Number: F347 A5 S64 1999.
Dorothy Vick Smith. "Black Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1870." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1985. Call Number: F341 S68 1985a.
Christopher M. Span. "Citizen or Laborer?: The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi 1862-1875." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. Call Number: LA313 S59 2001a.
Randy J. Sparks. On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773-1876. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. Call Number: BR1642 U5 S63 1994.
Philip Sterling and Rayford Logan. Four Took Freedom: The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Bruce represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction. Call Number: E185.96 S78 1967.
Afred Holt Stone. Post Bellum Reconstruction: An American Experience. Reprint from Journal of Mississippi History (July 1941). Call Number: E668 S8 P6.
Alfred H. Stone. Civil Rights, States Rights, and the Reconstruction Background. [Church Hill, MS: 1965]. Call Number: E185.61 S8.
Christopher Waldrep. Black Access to Law in Reconstruction: The Case of Warren County, Mississippi. [Chicago: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1994]. Call Number: KF4757 W35 1994.
Ruth Watkins et al. Reconstruction in Northern Counties of Mississippi. Typescripts written by history students under the
direction of Dr. Franklin L. Riley at the University of Mississippi, 1907-1911. Call Number: F341 R42.
Ruth Watkins. Reconstruction in Marshall County. Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Vol. 12. Call Number: F347 M3 W3.
James Levon Williams Jr. "Civil War and Reconstruction in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta, 1863-1875." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 1992. Call Number: F347 D3 W54 1992a.
John C. Willis. Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Charlottsville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Call Number: F347 M6 W55 2000
Archives and Special Collections
PO Box 1848
University, MS 38677
3rd floor of the J.D. Williams Library
Email: archivesdept@olemiss.edu
Open Monday through Friday 9am - 4pm (except holidays)
Jennifer Ford
Senior Curator of Manuscripts
Email: jwford@olemiss.edu