Looking for worthwhile books about the reconstruction era.
One of the best remains Kenneth Stampp, “The Era of Reconstruction.” Libertarian Jeffrey R. Hummel has a good book (if you get past the Lincoln bashing), called “Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men.” I forget the author, but there is one called the “Era of Good Stealings” that focuses on the North and corruption. And the classic is C. Vann Woodward, “The Strange Career of Jim Crow,” as well as his narrower “Reunion and Reaction.” A more traditional, “conservative” view is in David Donald, “Civil War and Reconstruction.”