Civil War Reconstruction (nonfiction)
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
by:
Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings 
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
by:
David W. Blight
4.14 avg rating — 2,724 ratings 
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Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Willie Lee Rose
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81 ratings 10. 
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
by:
David O. Stewart
4.02 avg rating — 3,719 ratings 
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Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction
by:
Thomas C. Holt
3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings 13. 
Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction 3.89 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860–1870
by:
Julie Saville
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 15. 
Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
by:
Jim Downs
3.97 avg rating — 201 ratings 17. 
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
by:
Philip Dray
4.13 avg rating — 281 ratings 18. 
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by:
Eric Foner
4.23 avg rating — 2,542 ratings 19. 
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy
by:
Sally Jenkins
3.79 avg rating — 1,160 ratings 
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Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
by:
C. Vann Woodward
3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings 
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by:
Richard White
4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 
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The South since the War: As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas
by:
Sidney Andrews
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 28. 
A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
by:
Stephen V. Ash
4.12 avg rating — 162 ratings 28. 
What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)
by:
Bruce E. Baker
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 32. 
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
by:
Bruce E. Baker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
by:
James L. Roark
3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings 34. 
The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900
by:
Nina Silber
3.66 avg rating — 71 ratings 36. 
The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (A History of the South, Vol 8) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present
by:
Pippa Holloway
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 42. 
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The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy after the Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America's Continuing Civil War
by:
Paul A. Cimbala
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 47. 
In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law
by:
Joseph A. Ranney
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 47. 
Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas
by:
Jack Jackson
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 49. 
Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
by:
Hilary N. Green
4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains
by:
Steven E. Nash
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings 53. 
Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
by:
Adam Fairclough
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction liked it 3.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860 to 1876 (Handbook to Life in America) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
by:
Eric Foner
4.17 avg rating — 779 ratings 62. 
The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
by:
Edward L. Ayers
3.89 avg rating — 213 ratings 63. 
The American Civil War and Reconstruction: People, Politics, and Power
by:
Jeff Wallenfeldt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 64. 
New Masters: Northern Planters During the Civil War and Reconstruction. (The North's Civil War)
by:
Lawrence Powell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 64. 
Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
by:
June Hall McCash
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 66. 
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
by:
H.W. Brands
4.13 avg rating — 6,134 ratings 
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In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America
by:
Andrew F. Lang
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878
by:
Toni P. Anderson
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 80. 
Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
by:
Daniel Brook
4.35 avg rating — 157 ratings 82. 
Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by:
Charles Lane
4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings 86. 
The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 3.86 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
by:
Brenda Wineapple
4.06 avg rating — 1,699 ratings 89. 
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
by:
Brenda Wineapple
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 383 ratings 