What to Read After Reconstruction
Readers who loved Reconstruction by Eric Foner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Reconstruction is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Reconstruction
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
What Hath God Wrought
American slavery, American freedom
Parting the Waters
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Race and Reunion
The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
The ideological origins of the American Revolution
Soul by Soul
This Republic of Suffering
The Half Has Never Been Told
Been in the storm so long
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
The impending crisis
White over black
Freedom from Fear
The Path between the seas
The Destructive War
Confederates In The Attic
A nation under our feet
The radicalism of the American Revolution
The Age of Reform
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Lincoln at Gettysburg