Part i: Introduction; Part ii: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Beginning of Congressional Reconstruction; Part iii: Statewide Changes and Achievements during Reconstruction; Part iv: The End of Reconstruction and the Return of Democratic Control; Part v: References

See also: Black and Tan Constitution; Redeemer Democrats; Scalawag; Union League.

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988).

Foner and Olivia Mahoney, America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War (1995).

J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Reconstruction in North Carolina (1914).

William C. Harris, William Woods Holden: Firebrand of North Carolina Politics (1987).