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- 1. Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2014)
- 2. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1999)
- 3. A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2015)
- 4. The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era (2015)
- 5. Reconstruction (New American Nation Series) (1989)
- 6. Reconstruction in philosophy (2010)
- 7. The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection (2001)
- 8. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2004)
- 9. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States) (2019)
- 10. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2006)
- 11. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History) (2018)
- 12. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (New Histories of American Law) (2015)
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1. Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2014)
From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves’ quest for economic autonomy and…
2. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1999)
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880 has justly been called a classic. #29,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #43 in African History (Books) #16 in Slavery & Emancipation History #71…
3. A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2015)
From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated abridged edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.In this updated edition of the abridged Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves’…
4. The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era (2015)
By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic abolitionists had thought such milestones would occur…
5. Reconstruction (New American Nation Series) (1989)
Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history” (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves’ quest for…
6. Reconstruction in philosophy (2010)
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7. The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection (2001)
An ample, wide-ranging collection of primary sources, The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, opens a window onto the political, social, cultural, economic, and military history from 1830 to 1877. Particular attention is paid to social history; coverage of the experience of African Americans, women, and non-elites provides a well-rounded picture of the period. Substantial selections, careful editing, and helpful annotations make this collection an ideal supplement for your course on the Civil War and Reconstruction. #482,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1994 in U.S. Civil War…
8. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2004)
Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners’ persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction’s end. Northern support for freed blacks and Reconstruction weakened in the wake of growing critiques of the economy and calls for a redistribution of wealth. Using newspapers, public speeches, popular tracts, Congressional reports, and private correspondence, Richardson traces the changing Northern attitudes toward African-Americans from the Republicans’ idealized image of black workers in 1861 through the 1901 publication of Booker T….
9. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States) (2019)
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America.At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country’s future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied…
10. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2006)
From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in shaping Reconstruction, and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. He compellingly refutes long-standing misconceptions of Reconstruction, and shows how the failures of the time sowed the seeds of the Civil Rights struggles of…
11. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History) (2018)
Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans. Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. Jones explains, no single case defined their…
12. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (New Histories of American Law) (2015)
Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war’s biggest casualty was the nation’s legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, altering Americans’ relationship to the law and allowing them to move popular conceptions of justice into the ambit…
Best Reconstruction Books Worth Your Attention
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Health and national reconstruction in Nationalist China: the development of modern health services, 1928-1937 /
Author(s): Ka-che Yip.
ID: 2690625, Publisher: Association for Asian Studies,, Year: c1995., Size: 29 Mb, Format: pdf
US Army's Effectiveness in Reconstruction According to the Guiding Principles of Stabilization
Author(s): Diane E. Chido
ID: 2831076, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Shaping the Breast: A Comprehensive Approach in Augmentation, Revision, and Reconstruction
Author(s): Kiya Movassaghi
ID: 2855911, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2021, Size: 13 Mb, Format: pdf
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