![]() ![]() |a United States |x Politics and government |y 1865-1877. ![]() representatives, five senators and five Supreme Court justices. This treatment remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period-an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today. To resolve the dispute, Congress set up an electoral commission in January 1877, consisting of five U.S. 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. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. |a In this updated edition of the abridged Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines how the post-Civil War period was viewed. |a : |b HarperCollins Publishers, |c 2015. ![]() |a A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 |h / |c Eric Foner. ![]()
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