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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner.Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War, which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences of the war's outcome.
A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction Blackwell, 2005) online; Grow, Matthew. "The shadow of the civil war: A historiography of civil war memory." American Nineteenth Century History 4.2 (2003): 77-103. Neely Jr, Mark E. "Lincoln, slavery, and the nation." Journal of American History 96.2 (2009): 456-458. online; Towers, Frank.
This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd ed.). Longman. ISBN 9780321125583. Goldfield, David (2011). America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781608193745. Guelzo, Allen C. (2012). Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, USA.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...
About 137 Black officeholders had lived outside the South before the Civil War. Some who had escaped from slavery to the North and had become educated returned to help the South advance in the postwar era. Others were free people of color before the war, who had achieved education and positions of leadership elsewhere. Other African American ...
In 2007, McPherson published This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, a series of essays about the American Civil War. One essay describes the huge difficulty of negotiation when regime change is a war aim on either side of a conflict.
Issues of the American Civil War; Origins of the American Civil War; Slavery in the United States; Abolitionism in the United States; Important events and people; Pennsylvania Society for Abolition of Slavery; Northwest Ordinance; Fugitive Slave Act of 1793; Cotton gin; Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions; Gabriel Plot; Vesey Plot; Nat Turner's ...