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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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- Publisher
- Harper & Row, New York
- Rights
- Fair-use claim — A short excerpt is reproduced here for educational commentary under a fair-use claim.
- Credit
- Eric Foner
- Citation
Eric Foner, Harper & Row, 1988
Eric Foner's landmark synthesis of Reconstruction historiography, which reframed the period as a genuine, if ultimately overturned, attempt at interracial democracy rather than the "tragic era" of corruption and misrule portrayed by earlier (Dunning School) historians.
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