Books like The wars of Reconstruction by Douglas R. Egerton

A reflection on race, Barack Obama's presidency, and the election of Donald Trump by the National Book Award-winning author of 'Between the World and Me'.

C. Vann Woodward’s classic 1955 study argues that Jim Crow segregation emerged only in the 1890s, showing the South’s racial relations were more mixed during slavery and Reconstruction.

Chronicles how Americans responded to the changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. An abridged version of *Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution*, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, *Los Angeles Times* Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, Frank and Harriet Owlsley Award, and Lionel Trilling Prize.

This new examination of the years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America. Historian Foner overturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, which is based almost exclusively on white sources and shaped by (often unconscious) racism. He presents the period as a time of determination, especially on the part of recently emancipated black Americans, to put into effect the principles of equal rights and citizenship for all. He makes clear how, by war's end, freed slaves built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment, and shows that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war.--From publisher description.