Bibliography
- Durden, Robert F. James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850–1882. (Duke University Press, 1957) ISBN 0-313-20168-4
- Durden, Robert F. "Pike, James Shepherd"; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000
- Historian John Hope Franklin discusses Pike's work
- Franklin, John Hope. Race and History: Selected Essays 1938-1988, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
- James M. McPherson. The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP (1975)
- Pike, James Shepherd, The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government(New York, 1874). full text online at Making of America, University of Michigan; paperback edition with introduction by Durden (1974)
- Pike, James Shepherd, First Blows of the Civil War (1879), collection of Pike's Tribune editorials and political letters online edition
- Mark Wahlgren Summers, The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865-1878 (1994)
- Van Cleve, Thomas C. "Pike, James Shepherd, (Sept. 8, 1811 - Nov. 29, 1882)" in Dictionary of American Biography (1934)
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