Reconstruction

Drawn from his extensive research into manuscript collections, official archives, personal papers, and scores of previously untapped resources, as well as decades of historical literature, Columbia University professor Eric Foner presents the definitive account of the turbulent period when Americans2both black and white2responded to the unprecedented social, political, and economic changes unleashed by the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period.