Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877

Suggested Readings

• Bethel Baptist Church (Americus, Ga.). History of Bethel Baptist Church. [S.l: s.n.], 1968.

• Blandford, Percy W. Old Farm Tools and Machinery: An Illustrated History. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Gale Research Co., c1976.

• Bonner, James C. History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1964.

• Caldwell, Wilber W. The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: A Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2001.

• Conway, Alan. The Reconstruction of Georgia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966.

• Cox, Jack F. History of Sumter County, Georgia. Roswell, Ga.: W.H. Wolfe Associates, 1983.

• Cumming, Joseph B. A History of Georgia Railroad and Banking Company and Its Corporate Affiliates, 1833-1958. Augusta, Ga.: Georgia Railroad and Banking Co., 1958?.

• Doster, James Fletcher. The Georgia Railroad & Banking Company in the Reconstruction Era. Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1964.

• Drago, Edmund L. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

• Flynn, Charles L. White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-century Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

• Georgia State Agricultural Society. Transactions of the Georgia State Agricultural Society from August, 1876, to February, 1878: Comprising Proceedings of Conventions at Gainesville, August, 1876; Milledgeville, March, 1877; Newnan, August, 1877; Americus, February, 1878. Atlanta, Ga.: J.P. Harrison & Co., 1878.

• Govan, Thomas P. Banking and the Credit System in Georgia, 1810-1860. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

• Hilton, George W. American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990.

• Messick, Denise P., J. W. Joseph, and Natalie Adams. Tilling the Earth: Georgia's Historic Agricultural Heritage - A Context. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, 2001.
  Also available online: Tilling the Earth

• Morris, Roy. Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

• Myers, Robert Manson, and Charles Colcock Jones. The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

• Pilsbury, J. B. The Revised Charter, Rules of Council, and Code of Ordinances of the City of Americus, Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta Constitution Pub. Co., 1876.

• Pogue, Jan. To Wield a Mighty Influence: The Story of Banking in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.: Corporate Stories, 1992.

• Polakoff, Keith Ian. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.

• Sheppard, Peggy. Portrait of a People: Americus and Sumter County, Georgia. Americus, Ga.: Americus-Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, 1976.

• Thompson, Clara Mildred. Reconstruction in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political, 1865-1872. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1971.

• Wallenstein, Peter. From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-century Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

• Wetherington, Mark V. The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

• Williford, William Bailey. Americus Through the Years: The Story of a Georgia Town and Its People, 1832-1975. Atlanta, Ga.: Cherokee Publishing Co., 1975.

• Woolley, Edwin Campbell, 1878-1916. The Reconstruction of Georgia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1901.

• Wright, Gavin. Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

• Wynne, Lewis Nicholas. The Continuity of Cotton: Planter Politics in Georgia, 1865-1892. Macon, Ga.: Mercer, 1986.
  

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