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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams, 1865-1877
W. E. B. Du Bois. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History
of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy
in America, 1860–1880 (1935; reprint, 1969).
Written two-thirds of a half-century ago, Du
Bois’s book is a classic that is still useful for both information and insights.
Eric Foner. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished
Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988).
The most thorough of recent treatments, incorporating
insights from many historians who have written on the subject during the past
forty years. Also available in a condensed version.
Leon F. Litwack. Been in the Storm So Long:
The Aftermath of Slavery (1979).
Focuses especially on the experience of the
freed people.
William S. McFeely. Frederick Douglass
(1991).
A highly readable biography of the most prominent
black political leader of the nineteenth century.
Michael Perman, ed. Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction,
2nd edn. (1998).
An excellent collection of primary sources
and recent essays by historians, touching nearly every aspect of Reconstruction.
C. Vann Woodward. Reunion and Reaction:
The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, rev. ed. (1956).
The classic account of the Compromise of 1877.
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