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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner's landmark synthesis of Reconstruction historiography, which reframed the period as a genuine, if ultimately overturned, attempt at interracial democracy rather than the "tragic era" of corruption and misrule portrayed by earlier (Dunning School) historians.
Assigned here as the chapter's central secondary-source interpretation, to be read alongside the primary sources it discusses.
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