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      • "The Good Colonel: Rutherford B.Hayes Remembers the Civil War" by Brooks D. Simpson
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    • Presidency
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      • "Inaugurating a 'Most Successful Administration"" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Curse of Good Times" by Hugh Sidey
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      • "Hayes and the Southern Question: An Interpretation" by RBH Presidential Library & Museums Staff
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        • "Another Look at the Election of 1876" by Michael F. Holt
      • "Rescued from Oblivion: Three Historians on America's Forgotten Presidents" by Dustin McLochlin, Ph.D
      • "Disputed Election" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Inaugurating a 'Most Successful Administration'" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Curse of Good Times" by Hugh Sidey
      • "George Crook and Rutherford B. Hayes: A Friendship Forged in War" by Peter Cozzens
      • "The Good Colonel: Rutherford B. Hayes Remembers the Civil War" by Brooks D. Simpson
      • "Rutherford B. Hayes and African-Americans" by Ari Hoogenboom
      • "Hayes and the Southern Question: An Interpretation" by RBH Presidential Library and Museum Staff
      • "Did Rutherford B. Hayes End Reconstruction?" by Thomas J. Culbertson
      • "Lincoln's Evolving Racial Attitudes" by Edna Medford
      • "The Other Leaders in the White House" by Allida Black
      • "A Good Man is Hard to Take: Grover Cleveland - Man of Destiny" by Mark Summers
      • "The View from the Front Porch: William McKinley and the Campaign of 1896" by H. Wayne Morgan
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