What to Read After A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
Readers who loved A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 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 A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
Race and Reunion
The impending crisis
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The strange career of Jim Crow
The Age of Reform
The peculiar institution
Many thousands gone
Half slave and half free
Over Here
Avengers of the New World
Cold War Civil Rights
The Confederate War
The legacy of conquest
Social Darwinism in American Thought
The Global Cold War
Making whiteness
The radicalism of the American Revolution
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Reconstruction
Soul by Soul
American slavery, American freedom
The ideological origins of the American Revolution
A nation under our feet
A Failed Empire