Rutherford B. Hayes/Bibliography


 * Bridges, Roger D. ""The Betrayal of the Freedmen? Rutherford B. Hayes and the End of Reconstruction?" (1996) online edition
 * DeSantis, Vincent P. Republicans Face the Southern Question (1959), looks at GOP attempts to find a substitute for their failed Reconstruction program.
 * Holt, Michael F. "Another Look at the Presidential Election of 1876" (2006) Hayes Lecture on the Presidency online
 * Hoogenboom, Ari. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President (1995), the standard scholarly biography.
 * Hoogenboom, Ari. The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes (1988), the standard scholarly survey
 * Hoogenboom, Ari. "Inaugurating a 'Most Successful Administration'' (2002) Hayes Lecture on the Presidency online
 * Hoogenboom, Ari. "Rutherford B. Hayes and African-Americans," (1996) online edition
 * Hoogenboom, Ari. Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883 (1961), the standard history.
 * Jordan, David M. Roscoe Conkling of New York (1971), on Hayes's toughest enemy
 * McPherson, James M. "Coercion or Conciliation? Abolitionists Debate President Hayes's Southern Policy," New England Quarterly 39 (1966) in JSTOR
 * Plesur, Milton. America's Outward Thrust (1971), argues Hayes's foreign policy was a forerunners of the more aggressive policies of McKinley and Roosevelt.
 * Polakoff, Keith Ian. The Politics of Inertia (1973), standard history of the disputed election of 1876 and its settlement.
 * Simpson, Brooks. "The Good Colonel: Rutherford B. Hayes Remembers the Civil War," (2003) Hayes Lecture on the Presidency online
 * Trefousse, Hans L. Carl Schurz (1982), biography of the cabinet member closest to Hayes.
 * Vazzano, Frank. "Rutherford B. Hayes and the Politics of Discord," Historian, 68 (Fall 2006), 519–40.