![A Short History of Reconstruction [updated Edition] by Eric Foner](https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062370860.jpg?v=79962d69ffa095fa)
A Short History of Reconstruction [updated Edition]
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 6, 2015
A History pick for readers exploring A Short History of Reconstruction [updated Edition].
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- Compact, practical Reconstruction history with enough room for nuance.
- Genres
- Civil War Era, Black History, 19th-Century America
- Published
- HarperCollins, January 6, 2015
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved. Most of these share its genres: Civil War Era and Black History.
Battle Cry of FreedomJames M. McPherson62% matchAlso shares 19th-Century America
This Hallowed GroundBruce Catton59% matchAlso shares 19th-Century America
The Rise and Fall of the Second American RepublicManisha Sinha73% match
The Second FoundingEric Foner72% match
Reconstruction Updated EditionEric Foner84% matchAlso shares 19th-Century America
The American RevolutionGordon S. Wood60% match
W.e.b. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (LOA #350)W.E.B. Du Bois74% match
The Republic for Which It StandsRichard White, Noah Michael Levine72% matchAlso shares 19th-Century America
For younger readers: What Was Reconstruction?, Stolen Justice: the Struggle for African American Voting Rights (scholastic Focus), A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.
Continue reading
It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves’ searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and one committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.
Why It Sticks
Compact, practical Reconstruction history with enough room for nuance.
Come here for
- clear historical framing
- classroom-ready scope
Expect
- accessible explanation
- reference-friendly pace
Where it sits
| Civil War Era | 100% |
|---|---|
| 19th-Century America | 41% |
| Black History | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 19th-Century America
- Civil War Era
- 20th-Century America
- Midwest History
Show all 8 publisher categories
- Southern U.S. History
- Western U.S. History
- The Americas History
- Social History
- Authors
- Eric Foner
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- January 6, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- 19th-Century America