Joint Committee On Reconstruction

The Joint Committee on Reconstruction was not revived in the next Congress. The House Of Representatives , however, established its own Select Committee On Reconstruction on July 3 , 1867 . National Archives Records of the House Select Committee include the resolution instructing the committee to investigate Ku Klux Klan activities. There are also letters, petitions, and a Memorial from Tennessee detailing the situation in that state. They indicate that, under the new constitution, former Rebels were regaining control of the government and intimidating or attacking supporters of the Union and Blacks . Also among the records are the printed proceedings of a convention at Nashville on February 16 , 1870 , aimed at revitalizing and reorganizing the Republican Party in Tennessee.¹

Concern about Ku Klux Klan activities led to establishment of another Joint Committee To Inquire Into The Condition Of The Late Insurrectionary States on April 17 , 1871 . A portion of the committee's minute book, covering the period from February 10 to 19 , 1872 , is among the records of the National Archives .¹

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# National Archives Records of Congress

REFERENCES

Belz, Herman. ''A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedman's Rights, 1861-1866'' (2000) pro-moderate.

Blaine, James G. ''Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860'' (1893)

Donald, David. ''Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man'' (1970), critical analysis, balanced perspective

Dunning, William Archibald. ''Reconstruction: Political & Economic, 1865-1877'' (1905), statement of Dunning School .

Foner, Eric. ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877'' (2002), recent synthesis; takes Neoabolitionist viewpoint of Freedmen.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. ''Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln'' (2005), pro-moderate.

Harris, William C. ''With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union'' (1997) Lincoln as moderate and opponent of Radicals.

Jellison, Charles A. ''Fessenden of Maine, Civil War Senator'' (1962), the Committee's chairman

Mantell, Martin E. ''Johnson, Grant, and the Politics of Reconstruction'' (1973)

Perman, Michael ''Emancipation and reconstruction'' (2003), a synthesis of recent historical literature on emancipation and reconstruction.

Randall, James G. ''Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure'' (1955) pro-moderate.

Rhodes, James G. ''History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. Volume: 6.'' (1920) 1865-72, highly detailed narrative. Vol 7, 1872-77

Stampp, Kenneth M. ''The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877'' (1967); early Neoabolitionist synthesis; pro-Radical

Simpson. Brooks D. ''Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868'' (1991), balanced.

Trefousse, Hans L. ''Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian'' (2001)]. Neoabolitionist biography; pro-Radical.

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