So, What Are You Reading?

Well, I'm a bit late this year, so now I'm going to set up my new reading projects for 2017.

Reading Project # 1: Reconstruction in South Carolina
Reading Project # 2: Reconstruction in Tennessee
Reading Project # 3: Reconstruction in Virginia

 

Reading Project # 1: Reconstruction in South Carolina

Walter Allen, Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina
Edmund L. Drago, Hurrah for Hampton!
John Porter Hollis, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina
Thomas Holt, Black Over White
John G. Jackson, Black Reconstruction in South Carolina
Hampton M. Jarrell, Wade Hampton and the Negro
Peggy Lamson, The Glorious Failure
James S. Pike, The Prostrate State
John S. Reynolds, Reconstruction in South Carolina
Willie Lee Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction
Francis Butler Simkins, Pitchfork Ben Tillman
Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction
Henry Tazewell Thompson, Ousting the Carpetbagger from South Carolina
George Brown Tindall, South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900
Okon Edet Uya, From Slavery to Public Service
Joel Williamson, After Slavery
Richard Zuczek, State of Rebellion

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Reading Project # 2: Reconstruction in Tennessee
John Randolph Neal, Disunion and Restoration in Tennessee
James Welch Patton, Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee
James Walter Fertig, Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee
Thomas B. Alexander, Political Reconstruction in Tennessee
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880
Peter Maslowski, Treason Must Be Made Odious

 

Reading Project # 3: Reconstruction in Virginia

Hamilton James Eckenrode, Political History of Virginia During the Reconstruction
Jack P. Maddex, The Virginia Conservatives
Richard G. Lowe, Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia
Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Officeholders in Virginia, 1865-1895

 

I have not finished Passion and Purity by Elizabeth Elliot. Its been what? 6 months since I have started it.

 

Rereading "The Travels of Lao Can" by Liu E

 

Read John Wallace's Carpetbag Rule in Florida.

 

Read John Porter Hollis' The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.

 

Geez! You amaze me Ted!

 

Read HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017. This is a book that contains 11 articles from the last year of Harvard Business Review. As usual, some of the articles are good and some are completely irrelevant to me. The most interesting article in the book was Getting to Si, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da," by Erin Meyer. It is a good article that I found useful.

 

Read James S. Pike's The Prostrate State.

 

Read John G. Jackson's Black Reconstruction in South Carolina.

 

Long Past Slavery by Catherine Stewart. It is about the Ex Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers Project. My thesis and dissertation topic.

 

What a great topic!!!!!!!!!

 

How's the dissertation coming?

 

Read Henry Tazewell Thompson's Ousting the Carpetbagger from South Carolina.

 

Defense has been pushed back to August

 

Read Okon Edet Uya's From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915.

 

Read Peggy Lansom's The Glorious Failure: Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the Reconstruction in South Carolina.

 

Read Edmund L. Drago's Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina During Reconstruction.