A Short History of Reconstruction

Eric Foner

HarperCollins, Jan 10, 1990 - History - 320 pages

An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Short History of Reconstruction
• Author: Eric Foner
• Edition: abridged, illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 1990
• ISBN: 0060964316, 9780060964313
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)