Giant footprints..

A small sample of Publications covering the Reconstruction Era:

1. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, 1st ed. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1947.
[A Classic]

2. Reconstruction: after the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

And some other gems:
3. Reminiscences of an Active Life -
The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch. University Press of Mississipi, Edited and with an introduction by John Hope Franklin, c2008.

4. In Search of the Promised Land
A Slave Family in the Old South John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. Oxford University Press. c2006
[Thomas-Rapier family]

4. My Life and An Era.
The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin, Edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin. LSU Press. c2000

6. Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.