Wilson's "Ku Klux Klan" (1905) and M.L.Avary's "Dixie After the War" (1906) contribute much to a fair understanding of the feeling of the whites after the Civil War; and Gideon Welles, "Diary", 3 vols.

(1911), is a mine of information from a conservative cabinet officer's point of view.
For the politician's point of view one may go to James G.Blaine's "Twenty Years of Congress", 2 vols.

(1884, 1886) and Samuel S.Cox's "Three Decades of Federal Legislation" (1885).

Good biographies are James A.Woodburn's "The Life of Thaddeus Stevens" (1913), Moorfield Storey's "Charles Sumner" (1900), C.F.

Adams's "Charles Francis Adams" (1900).