Eric Foner
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.
In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is...
In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
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
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