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Reconstruction:

America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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HarperCollins, Feb 5, 2002 - History - 736 pages

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.

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Review: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (The New American Nation Series)

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The capstone of the revisionist interpretation of Reconstruction was Eric Foner's 1989 work Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, fittingly replacing Dunning's 1907 ... Read full review

Review: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (The New American Nation Series)

User Review  - Dale - Goodreads

Hope and despair, courage, greed, violence and fear as both North and South wrestled with the aftermath of the Civil War and the fate of an entire race; painful reading of a painful time in US history ... Read full review

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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. From Chapter 5, "The Meaning of Freedom". Perhaps the most striking illustration of the ...
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Profiles:. Eric Foner. Columbia University New York, New York. “Rarely have the study and teaching of history aroused such intense controversy as today. ...
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About the author (2002)

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, is the author of numerous works on American history, including Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War; Tom Paine and Revolutionary America; and The Story of American Freedom. He has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, and has been named Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities.

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TitleReconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Perennial Classics
AuthorEric Foner
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHarperCollins, 2002
ISBN0060937165, 9780060937164
Length736 pages
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History / General
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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