Ashcroft, Shad The Successes and Failures of Reconstruction, A Study with Documents
US History Documents
This as an excellent reference source for original documents including comments from the historical context of what followed the Dred Scott Decision.
Blight, David Race and Reunion, The Civil War in American Memory
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2001
The chapters, "Regeneration and Reconstruction" and "Reconstruction and Reconciliation" are excellent background reads for establishing what the United States faced at the end of the Civil War.
Burt, Robert A. The Constitution in Crisis
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1992
The chapter titled, "The Black Race Within Our Bosom, The Red on Our Borders" is an excellent reference for the territorial restrictions the Supreme Court imposed on Congress after overturning the underpinnings of the Missouri Compromise in the Dred Scott Decision.
Epps, Garrett Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Civil
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Rights in Post Civil War America
Harry Holt and Company 2006
This a comprehensive description of the radicalization of the process as a result of the actions of President Johnson and it contains a great deal of information on the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1867.
Fehrenbacher, Don E. Slavery, Law and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical
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Perspective Oxford University Press, 1981
This is the he best and most thorough source for understanding the Dred Scott Decision and its impact. The last chapters, the last three chapters are essential in beginning to understand the impact of the decision on America and the subsequent constitutional amendments.
Foner, Eric The Fiery Trial, Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. 2010
There are two reasons why this is a very good source. One it describes the role of the Dred Scott Decision in the Lincoln Douglas Debates and it gives insight into the evolution of Lincoln's thinking about the rights of slaves.
Foner, Eric Forever Free, The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
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Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
This is a good telling of the process from the start of the Civil War to Confiscation, early Emancipation Debate and the Emancipation Proclamation through the passage of the three Amendments.
Foner, Eric Reconstruction 1863-1877, America's Unfinished Revolution
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Harper and Row 1988
Provides perspective on the entire Reconstruction Period.
Hall, Kermit L. Hall The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
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Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
Holder, Angela Roddey The Meaning of the Constitution, Third Edition
Barron Educational Series 1997
This is a good reference for the exact wording of Amendments and then description of the significant legal cases that have referred to the Amendments.
Howard, Benjamin Report of the Decision of the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, In the Case of Dred
Scott v. John F.A.Sandford, December Term, 1856, 19th Volume
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Cornelius Wendell, Printer 1857
Here are the opinions as they were issued, at the time they were issued, from the Justices involved in the Dred Scott Decision. It is full of original material.
Irons, Peter A People's History of the Supreme Court
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Penguin Books, 2008
This is a comprehensive history of the Supreme Court that was helpful in establishing perspective on the Dred Scott Case.
Kommers, Donald et. al American Constitutional Law, Volume 2, Liberty, Community
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and the Bill of Rights, Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, 2004
Excellent reference for all legal cases with Constitutional Significance in the history of the United States grouped by what they referred to in the Constitution.
Lane, Charles The Day Freedom Died, the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the
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Betrayal of Reconstruction Henry Holt and Company, 2008
This book looks back over the course of reconstruction and what preceded it from the perspective of the Grant Administration.
Mantz, Earl M. Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861
University Press of Kansas, 2009
This book traces the legal history of slavery through all the relevant cases that preceded the Civil War including a number of chapters on the Dred Scott decision and its legacy.
Perea, Juan F. et. al Race and Races, Cases and Resources for a Diverse America, 2nd ed. American Casebook Series, Thompson and West 2007
The Dred Scott Case in legal perspective and suggestions for other resources.
Rosen, Hannah Terror in the Heart of Freedom, Citizenship, Sexual Violence and the
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Meaning of Race in the Post emancipation South
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University of North Carolina Press, 2009
The Introduction gives a good overview on the course of Reconstruction and the influence of the Dred Scott decision.
Van Cleve, George William A Slaveholders' Union, Slavery, Politics and the Constitution In the Early American Republic University of Chicago Press 2010
This book gives a thorough description of the beginning of Constitutional Debate and Slavery through the Constitution's ratification and the early Presidencies.
Vorenberg, Michael FINAL FREEDOM ,The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment Cambridge University Press, 2001
Describes the growing pressure for amending the Constitution to abolish slavery instead of issuing a proclamation that could be overturned.
Weiner, Mark S. BLACK TRIALS, Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
This is a very interesting read that emphasizes the lack of any kind of national citizenship for African Americans prior to Taney's Opinion in Dred Scott and the subsequent 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
White. G. Edward Law in American History, Volume 1, From the Colonial Years Through The Civil War Oxford University Press, 2012
Another of the legal histories that traces the evolution of citizenship laws through the states toward a national citizenship for African Americans.