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Holt, Thomas. ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252007751/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252007751&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=778c7f52d77c807c19afe6880824b63a Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction]''. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979.

In this prize-winning book Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Reconstruction, but also with the question of how they functioned within the political system. Thus, as one reviewer has commented, "he penetrates the superficial preoccupations over whether black politicians were venal or gullible to see whether they wielded power and influence and, if they did, how and to what ends and against what obstacles."

Heather C. Richardson, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674013662/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674013662&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=45f9bbb1ae7f3aa8483139628d71749e The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North]</i> (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth.

Gregory P. Downs, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674743989/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674743989&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=3a09ee41b81655e20af0511223e1e7d0 After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War] (Harvard University Press, 2015)

On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant asking for peace. Peace was beyond his authority to negotiate, Grant replied, but surrender terms he would discuss. As Gregory Downs reveals in this gripping history of post–Civil War America, Grant’s distinction proved prophetic, for peace would elude the South for years after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.