History: General Archives

The highlighted items are about Shreveport and Caddo Parish and nearby Louisiana. Many (but not all) are available at JSTOR.

  • Abbott, Martin. “Reconstruction in Louisiana: Three Letters.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 1, no. 2 (1960): 153–57. JSTOR #4230561
  • Babers, Andrew J. and Joe W. Dyson. Letter. “Meeting at Wheeling.” The Daily Shreveport Times, vol. 3, no. 206, 29 Jul. 1874, p. 1.
  • Bailey, Amy Kate, and Stewart Emory Tolnay. Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
  • Bauer, Penelope H. “The Trial of the Natchitoches 48.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 52, no. 4 (2011): 417–39. JSTOR #23074723.
  • “The Bossier Riot.” The Ouachita Telegraph, vol .4, no. 4, 14 Oct. 1868, p. 1.
  • Burton, Willie. On the Black Side of Shreveport: A History. Shreveport, 1983.
  • —. The Blacker the Berry: A Black History of Shreveport. Shreveport, The Times, 2002.
  • Chadbourn, James Harmon. Lynching and the Law. University of North Carolina Press, 1933. The Lawbook Exchange, LTD., 2009.
  • Dauphine, James G.. “The Knights of the White Camelia and the Election of 1868: Louisiana’s White Terrorists; A Benighting Legacy.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 30, no. 2 (1989): 173–90. JSTOR #4232730.
  • Dethloff, Henry C., and Robert R. Jones. “Race Relations in Louisiana, 1877–98.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 9, no. 4 (1968): 301–23. JSTOR #4231029.
  • De Vries, Mark Leon. “Between Equal Justice and Racial Terror: Freedpeople and the District Court of DeSoto Parish during Reconstruction.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 56, no. 3 (2015): 261–93. JSTOR #43858254.
  • De Vries, Mark Leon. The Politics of Terror: Enforcing Reconstruction in Louisiana’s Red River Valley. A dissertation with LC call number LF4142 .D57 V75 2015.
  • Du Bois, W.E.B.. Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880. Russell & Russell, 1935.
  • Fairclough, Adam. “Alfred Raford Blunt and the Reconstruction Struggle in Natchitoches, 1866–1879.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 51, no. 3 (2010): 284–305. JSTOR #/25699414.
  • Fairclough, Adam. Race & Democracy. The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972. Athens, GA & London: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
  • —. “‘Scalawags,’ Southern Honor, and the Lost Cause: Explaining the Fatal Encounter of James H. Cosgrove and Edward L. Pierson.” The Journal of Southern History 77, no. 4 (2011): 799–826. www.jstor.org/stable/41305648.
  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution; 1863–1877. New York, NY: Harper et Row, 1998.
  • —. “Reconstruction Revisited.” Reviews in American History 10, no. 4 (1982): 82–100.
  • Jones, Howard J. “Biographical Sketches of Members of the 1868 Louisiana State Senate.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 19, no. 1 (1978): 65-110. www.jstor.org/stable/4231757.
  • Katagiri, Yasuhiro. Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South. Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
  • “The Man on the Fence.” The Ouachita Telegraph, 27 Aug. 1887, p. 1.
  • Lurvink, Karin. Beyond Racism and Poverty: The Truck System on Louisiana Plantations and Dutch Peateries, 1865-1920. HD4928 .T72 U6 2018. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill 2018.
  • Maxwell, Richard S. “Louisiana and Its History: A Discussion of Sources in the National Archives.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 13, no. 2 (1972): 169-80. www.jstor.org/stable/4231249.
  • McCrary, Peyton. “Bibliographical Essay.” In Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment, 381-400. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978.
  • McKnight, Douglas. “Of Time and River: How Place Racialized My Course in Life.” Counterpoints 434 (2014): 304-15.
  • McKnight, Douglas. Place, Race, and Identity Formation: Autobiographical Intersections in a Curriculum Theorist’s Daily Life. New York and London: Routledge, 2017.
  • Nash, Gary B., and Weiss, Richard ed. The Great Fear: Race in the Mind of America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
  • Perkins, A. E. “Some Negro Officers and Legislators in Louisiana.” The Journal of Negro History 14, no. 4 (1929): 523-28.
  • Pfeifer, Michael J. “The Civil War and Reconstruction and the Remaking of American Lynching.” In The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching, 67-87. Urbana; Chicago; Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2011. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xchtc.9.
  • Pfeifer, Michael J. “Lynching and Criminal Justice in South Louisiana, 1878-1930.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 40, no. 2 (1999): 155-77. www.jstor.org/stable/4233571.
  • Pfeifer, Michael J. “The Origins of Postbellum Lynching: Collective Violence in Reconstruction Louisiana.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 50, no. 2, 2009, pp. 189–201. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25478643.
  • Powell, Lawrence N., Review of Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862-1877 by Joseph G. Dawson III The Journal of Southern History 48, no. 4 (1982): 588-89.
  • —. “Why Louisiana Mattered.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 53, no. 4 (2012): 389-401. www.jstor.org/stable/24396546.
  • “The Red River Expedition, 1864.” Harper’s Magazine, vol. 30, Dec-May, 1864-1865, pp. 586-593.
  • Rodrigue, John C. “Labor Militancy and Black Grassroots Political Mobilization in the Louisiana Sugar Region, 1865-1868.” The Journal of Southern History 67, no. 1 (2001): 115-42.
  • Sanson, Jerry Purvis. “Rapides Parish, Louisiana, during the End of Reconstruction.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 27, no. 2 (1986): 167-82. www.jstor.org/stable/4232498.
  • —. “White Man’s Failure: The Rapides Parish 1874 Election.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 31, no. 1 (1990): 39-58. www.jstor.org/stable/4232768.
  • Schoonover, Thomas. “The German Minister Interprets Reconstruction Louisiana.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 18, no. 3 (1977): 335-37.
  • Sefton, James E. United States Army and Reconstruction 1865-1877. Louisiana State University Press, 1967.
  • Sherrod, Ricky. “Beyond Coushatta: The 1874 Exodus Out of Red River Parish.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 52, no. 4 (2011): 440-72. www.jstor.org/stable/23074724.
  • Snyder, Perry Anderson. Shreveport, Louisiana, During the Civil War and Reconstruction. 2002. Florida State University, PhD dissertation.
  • Smith, Solomon K. “The Freedmen’s Bureau in Shreveport: The Struggle for Control of the Red River District.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 41, no. 4 (2000): 435-65. www.jstor.org/stable/4233699.
  • Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. Lynchings and What They Mean: General Findings of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. University of North Carolina Press, 1931.
  • Taylor, Joe Gray. Review of Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism and Race in Louisiana, 1862- 1877. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 26, no. 2 (1985): 220- 23. www.jstor.org/stable/4232428.
  • “Thrilling Letter to Grant.” Letter. The Daily Shreveport Times, 16 Jan. 1875, p. 1.
  • “The True Story of ‘Bloody Caddo.’” The Daily Shreveport Times, 19 Aug. 1874, p. 2.
  • Thurston, Robert W. Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective. Routledge, 2011.
  • Trelease, Allen W. White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction. Harper & Row, 1971.
  • Tunnell, Ted. “Marshall Harvey Twitchell and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Bienville Parish.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 33, no. 3 (1992): 241-63. www.jstor.org/stable/4232956.
  • Tunnell, T. B. Jr. “The Negro, the Republican Party, and the Election of 1876 in Louisiana.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 7, no. 2 (1966): 101-16. www.jstor.org/stable/4230895.
  • Vandal, Gilles. “Albert H. Leonard’s Road from the White League to the Republican Party: A Political Enigma.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 36, no. 1 (1995): 55–76. JSTOR #4233165.
  • —. “‘Bloody Caddo’: White Violence against Blacks in a Louisiana Parish, 1865-1876.” Journal of Social History, vol. 25, no. 2, 1991, p. 373.
  • —. “Black Violence in Post-Civil War Louisiana.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 25, no. 1 (1994): 45-64. Accessed July 12, 2020. doi:10.2307/206111.
  • —. “The Policy of Violence in Caddo Parish, 1865–1884.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 159–82, JSTOR #4232878.
  • —. “Property Offenses, Social Tension and Racial Antagonism in Post-Civil War Rural Louisiana.” Journal of Social History 31, no. 1 (1997): 127-53. www.jstor.org/stable/3789860.
  • Vincent, Charles. “Louisiana’s Black Legislators and Their Efforts to Pass a Blue Law During Reconstruction.” Journal of Black Studies 7, no. 1 (1976): 47-56. www.jstor.org/stable/2783730.
  • “The War in Grant.” The Daily Shreveport Times, vol. 2, no. 122, 3 May 1873, p. 1.
  • Warmoth, Henry Clay. War, Politics, and Reconstruction : Stormy Days in Louisiana. New York: Macmillan Company, 1930.
  • Wetta, Frank J. “‘Bulldozing the Scalawags’: Some Examples of the Persecution of Southern White Republicans in Louisiana during Reconstruction.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 21, no. 1 (1980): 43-58. www.jstor.org/stable/4231954.
  • Wiencek, Henry. “’Bloody Caddo’: Economic Change and Racial Continuity During North Louisiana’s Oil Boom, 1896-1922.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, vol. 60, no. 2, 2019, p. 199.
  • Williams, Kidada E. ““The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution”: The Terror of Emancipation.” In They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I, 17-54. New York; London: NYU Press, 2012. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzprx.5.
  • Williams, Lou Falkner. “Federal Enforcement of African American Voting Rights in the Post-Redemption South: Louisiana and the Election of 1878.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 55, no. 3 (2014): 313-43. www.jstor.org/stable/24396706.
  • Wilson, James D.,Jr. “The Donaldsonville Incident of 1870: A Study of Local Party Dissension and Republican Infighting in Reconstruction Louisiana.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 38, no. 3 (1997): 329-45. www.jstor.org/stable/4233418.