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- Foner framed his book as a synthesis of two schools of thought: the "revisionist" interpretation that had already done so much to debunk the Jim Crow scholarship known as the "Dunning School" and the "post-revisionist" ap- proach more characteristic of the 1970s, which had emphasized the shortcomings of the Republican vision for the South.
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It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing...
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.
Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period, starting with Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 in 1988. [3] His online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction", published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.
And now, with the appearance of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, a massive volume of 690 pages, Foner has established himself as the leading authority on the Reconstruction period.
One of several legal areas identified by Foner as ripe for reimagination is the Thirteenth Amendment’s enforcement clause: “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
Eric Foner wrote Reconstruction in an era of in the history of labor and social life. As the book's organizational Reconstruction at Twenty-Five 15. clear, he sought to balance the story of national-level policy making with a careful ex- amination of the local histories of emancipation.
Dec 13, 2011 · Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way...
