The South As It Is: 1865-1866.
Edited and with a New Introduction by Caroline E. Janney.
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2010.
Book Information: Publisher, 2010; Google Books, 2010; Amazon.com, 2010.
Previously published as:
John Richard Dennett.
The South as It Is: 1865-1866.
Edited, and with an Introduction, by Henry M. Christman.
New York: Viking Press, 1965.
Reprinted: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
The book is a collection of 36 articles published in the Nation magazine from 08 July 1865 through 11 April 1866.
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Author Information:
- John Richard Dennett (1838-1874).
- Obituary of John Richard Dennett, The New York Times, 29 November 1874.
(Subscription required to view obituary online.) - "The Class Poets," The Harvard Register: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 3, Number 7, Pages 426-428, July 1881.
[Google Books, Michigan copy; Google Books, California copy.] - "John Richard Dennett," The Fifth Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1862 of Harvard College, Pages 136-138, December 1882.
[Google Books.] - The only information I found for the author is in the editor's introduction by Caroline Janney. I obtained the above references from her introduction.
Editor Information:
- Caroline E. Janney, Department of History, Purdue University.
- Caroline E. Janney, C-SPAN.
Other Contemporary Accounts of the Post Civil War South:
- Carl Schurz (1829–1906), "The Condition of the South: Extracts from the Report of Major-General Carl Schurz, on the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana: Addressed to the President," 1865.
[Archive.org.]
Reprinted: Carl Schurz, "Report on the Condition of the South," Pages 279-374, in Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, Volume 1: 1852-1870. Edited by Frederic Bancroft. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.
[Google Books; Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Toronto.]
Reprinted: Carl Schurz. Report on the Condition of the South. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969.
[Google Books.] - Sidney Andrews (1837-1880). The South Since the War. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
[Archive.org, Wellesley College.]
Reprinted: Sidney Andrews. The South since the War. Abridged with a new Introduction by Heather Cox Richardson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912). After the War: A Southern Tour. May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866. New York: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1866. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1866.
[Archive.org.]
Reprinted: Whitelaw Reid. After the War: A Tour of the Southern States, 1865-1866. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. New York: Harper Torchbooks (Harper & Row), 1965.
[Google Books; Amazon.com.] - J. T. Trowbridge (1827–1916). The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities, A Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks with the People. Hartford, Conn.: L. Stebbins, 1866.
[Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Northeastern University.]
Reprinted: John Townsend Trowbridge. The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities, A Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks with the People, 1867. J.H. Segars, editor. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2006.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - J. T. Trowbridge (1827–1916). A Picture of the Desolated States; and the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868. Hartford, Conn.: L. Stebbins, 1868.
[Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Toronto.] - George Washington Cable (1844–1925). The Silent South together with The Freedman's Case in Equity and The Convict Lease System. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885.
[Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Toronto.] - Alexander K. McClure (1828–1909). The South: Its Industrial, Financial, and Political Condition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886.
[Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Toronto.] - Lewis H. Blair (1834–1916). The Prosperity of the South Dependent Upon the Elevation of the Negro. Richmond, Va.: Everett Waddey, 1889.
[Google Books; Archive.org, NYPL.]
Reprinted: Lewis H. Blair. A Southern Prophecy: The Prosperity of the South Dependent Upon the Elevation of the Negro. Edited with an Introduction by C. Vann Woodward. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964.
[Google Books; Archive.org; Amazon.com.] - George Washington Cable (1844–1925). The Southern Struggle for Pure Government: An Address. Boston: Press of Samuel Usher, 1890.
[Archive.org, Emory.] - Ida B. Wells (1862–1931). Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. New York: The New York Age Printers, 1892.
[Archive.org, Project Gutenberg.]
Reprinted: Ida B. Wells. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900, Second Edition. Edited with an Introduction by Jacqueline Jones Royster. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martins (Macmillan), 2016.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Reprinted: Ida B. Wells. The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Mia Bay. New York: Penguin Classics, 2014.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Kate Cumming (1830–1909). Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South before, during and after the War of Secession, with Extracts from the Author's Journal and Epitome of the New South. Birmingham [Ala.]: Roberts & Son, 1895.
[Archive.org, Library of Congress.] - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). Up from Slavery. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901.
[Wikipedia; Archive.org, Wellesley College; Archive.org, North Carolina; Archive.org, Toronto.]
Reprinted: Booker T. Washington. Up from Slavery. With an Introduction and Notes by Louis R. Harlan. Penguin Classics, 1986.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Reprinted: Booker T. Washington. Up from Slavery. (Dover Thrift Editions.) Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1995.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Reprinted: Booker T. Washington. Up from Slavery. (Norton Critical Editions.) Edited by William L. Andrews. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Reprinted: Booker T. Washington. Up from Slavery: with Related Documents. (Bedford Series in History & Culture.) Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's (Macmillan), 2002.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Edgar Gardner Murphy (1869–1913). Problems of the Present South: A Discussion of Certain of the Educational, Industrial and Political Issues in the Southern States. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904.
[Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Library of Congress.] - [Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (1834-1907).] The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889. Edited by Virginia Ingraham Burr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
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Wikipedia Articles:
- History of the Southern United States: Reconstruction (1863–1877).
- History of the Southern United States: Origins of the New South (1877–1913).