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The Confederate monument building campagins of the 1890s were about erasing the history of multiracial gains of Reconstruction. While renaming streets, Charlotte could focus on Reconstruction leaders disappeared from the record like John T Schenck https://www.charlottemagazine.com/the-story-of-charlotte-part-6-power-shifts/
While the Red Shirt white supremacy campaign and the Wilmington Massacre has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, the way pro-Confederacy scholars reshaped the history of the Reconstruction period in the early 1900s is less known.
JG de Roulhac Hamilton founded the Southern Historical Collection at UNC Chapel Hill in 1930, just as living memory of Reconstruction was fading. He collected documents that would support the "Lost Cause" mythology and leaving out those that might not. http://unchistory.web.unc.edu/building-narratives/hamilton-hall/
Hamilton's PHD advisor at Columbia in 1900 was pro-Southern historian, William Dunning. The "Dunning" school shaped early interpretation of the history of Reconstruction for another 2 generations. Aside from WEB DuBois' 1935 book, there wasn't much pushback until the 1950s.
I'm sure there are some more recent books out there but Eric Foner's 1990 "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution" is probably still the best known deep dive history that tried to correct the record: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/reconstruction-updated-edition-eric-foner?variant=32116709523490
WEB DuBois, "Black Reconstruction in America," 1860-1880 came out in 1935, disputing the Dunning School's pro-Southern interpretations which were dominant at the time https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-Reconstruction-in-America-1860-1880/W-E-B-Du-Bois/9780684856575
