had already given final approval to send the draft Fourteenth Amendment to the states for ratification, and the report was widely disseminated. The report was signed by 12 of the committee's members, and a minority report was signed by the other three: Johnson, Rogers, and Grider. The Joint Committee on Reconstruction was not revived at the next Congress. Bibliography Belz, Herman. A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedman's Rights, 1861-1866 (2000). Blaine, James G. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860 (1893) Donald, David. Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970), critical analysis, balanced perspective. Donald, David. Lincoln (1996). Dunning, William Archibald. Reconstruction: Political & Economic, 1865-1877 (1905) Dunning School. Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988). Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005). Harris, William C. With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (1997). Jellison, Charles A. Fessenden of Maine, Civil War Senator (1962), the committee's chairman Mantell, Martin E. Johnson, Grant, and the Politics of Reconstruction (1973) National Archives Records of Congress. Existing records in the National Archives contain part of the committee report, as well as a few petitions concerning restoration of the former Confederate states to representation in Congress. The petitions are from Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. There is also a resolution of the New York Legislature regarding this issue and advocating equality of suffrage in the District of Columbia for all adult males. National Archives records also include information about a United States House Select Committee on Reconstruction established in July 1867, but that was an entirely separate committee from the Joint Committee on Reconstruction which by that time no longer existed. Perman, Michael Emancipation and reconstruction (2003), a synthesis of recent historical literature on emancipation and reconstruction. Randall, James G. Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure (1955). Rhodes, James G. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. Volume: 6. (1920) 1865-72, detailed narrative. Vol 7, 1872-77. Stampp, Kenneth M. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967). Simpson. Brooks D. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 (1991). Trefousse, Hans L. Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian (2001). Trefousse, Hans L. Andrew Johnson: A Biography (1989). References Congress Joint Committee