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Samuel Hugh Hawkins diary, January-July 1877

The New South: Southwestern Georgia, Americus, Sumter County, 1894. Americus, Ga.: Americus Times-Recorder, 1971.
Anderson, Alan. Remembering Americus, Georgia: Essays on Southern Life. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006.
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.
Florida Election: Argument of Counsel for Democratic Electors. s.n., 1876.
Flynn, Charles L. White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-century Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Frantz, Edward O. A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865-1881. Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
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.
Gibson, A. M. A Political Crime: The History of the Great Fraud. New York: W.S. Gottsberger, 1885.
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.
Holt, Michael F. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Jones, Robert C. A History of Georgia Railroads. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017.
Leigh, Frances Butler. Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1883.
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.
Trefousse, Hans L. Rutherford B. Hayes. New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2002.
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.