Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 - Eric Foner
This masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history 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.
"The American blindspot": Reconstruction according to Eric Foner and W.E.B. Du Bois - Noel Ignatiev
Noel Ignatiev's review of two books about Reconstruction, which was the period in American history where the victorious Northern federal government attempted to transform the state and society in the South.
