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With a New Introduction
From the preeminent historian of Reconstruction (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prizewinning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America
Eric Foners masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history (New Republic) redefined how the postCivil War period was viewed.
Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americansblack and whiteresponded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society, the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations, and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.
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EDITED BY
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
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RICHARD B. MORRIS
P ROBABLY no other chapter of American history has been the subject, one might say the victim, of such varied and conflicting interpretations as what attempts to give unity and coherence to the era we call Reconstruction. Even the chronology is chaotic. Did the process begin with the bizarre creation of West Virginia in 1861or should that be dated 1863? Did it conclude with the Compromise of 1877 or was its true conclusion Brown v. Topeka in 1954? Was its central theme politicalthe reconstruction of the old Union, or was it legal and constitutionalthe revolutionary Fourteenth Amendment that still functions as an instrument of revolution? Was its central theme social and moralthe end of slavery, or did the realities of slavery persist for another half century or more? Was its significance fundamentally in what has been called the Emergence of Modern Americainto the Triumphant Democracy that Andrew Carnegie celebrated, or was it rather the emergence of America to world poweror certainly to Pacific power? Or might it all be interpreted in philosophical termsthe Age of Darwin and Spencer, of Lester Ward and William James, who contributed so much to reconstructing American thought?
Reconstruction embraced, of course, all these chapters of our historya conclusion illustrated by successive generations of historians from James Ford Rhodes, Ellis Oberholtzer, John W. Burgess, and Vernon Parrington to the schools of William Dunning, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter Fleming, and Allan Nevins.
It is to this distinguished lineage of Reconstruction scholars that Professor Foner belongs, and in nothing is he more distinguished than in his independence and originality. The most striking feature of that independence is his insistence that the Negro was the central figure and the most effective in Reconstruction: in this he was, to be sure, anticipated by the great Negro leader, Du Bois. To the support of his thesis, Mr. Foner has brought a prodigious body of evidence, organized it not only skillfully but also, we may almost say, with stylistic genius, and produced what is a scholarly convincing reconstruction of what is indubitably the most controversial chapter in our history.
H ENRY S TEELE
C OMMAGER R ICHARD B. M ORRIS
H istorians, by and large, tend not to be very self-reflective. Autobiography, in vogue nowadays among anthropologists and English professors, seems to have little appeal in history departments. But the reissue of Reconstruction: Americas Unfinished Revolution to mark the 150th anniversary of the volatile era that followed the American Civil War offers the occasion for some brief reflections on how the book was originally written, how historical scholarship on Reconstruction has evolved in the last quarter century, and why an understanding of the period remains essential today.
It was the late Richard Morris, a distinguished scholar of early American history, who asked me to write the volume on Reconstruction for the New American Nation Series, for which he and Henry Steele Commager served as editors. The year was 1975 and the invitation totally unexpected. To be sure, my first book dealt with the preCivil War Republican party, many of whose leaders went on to play pivotal roles in Reconstruction. But when Morriss letter arrived, I was nearing completion of a book on Tom Paine and was planning to embark on a history of American radicalism. I had written nothing on Reconstruction except for an essay on Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the eras Radical Republicans.
Years before, it is true, I had made an initial foray into Reconstruction history in my American history class at Long Beach High School, in the suburb of New York City where I grew up. Our teacher was Mrs. Bertha Berryman, affectionately known among the students as Big Bertha (after a piece of World War I artillery). Following the then-dominant view of the era, Mrs. Berryman described the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which gave the right to vote to black men in the South, as the worst law in all of American history. I raised my hand and disagreed, suggesting that the Alien and Sedition Acts were worse. Mrs. Berryman replied, If you dont like the way Im teaching, why dont you come in tomorrow and give your own lesson on Reconstruction? This I proceeded to do, admittedly with the help of my father, himself a historian. My presentation was based largely on W. E. B. Du Boiss monumental work,
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