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Nice summary! Next read ‘Forever Free’ by Eric Foner to learn about Reconstruction. Those two books should be required reading in American high school history c
by greenie_beans 5y ago
Nice summary! Next read ‘Forever Free’ by Eric Foner to learn about Reconstruction. Those two books should be required reading in American high school history classes.
- binarynate 5y agoThank you! I'll take you up on that recommendation. "Battle Cry of Freedom" ends abruptly at the close of the war, and I was just thinking last night that the next book I read should be on reconstruction.
- throwawayciv651 5y agoIn addition to that, "Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality" by Richard Kluger is a really good read.
- sixstringtheory 5y agoAdding this to my list as well, interested to read some of Foner’s work. I already had Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois on my to-read list, if anyone has read either/both I’d be interested to hear a comparison.
- dangerlibrary 5y agoFollow it up with "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein to understand how the decisions made during Reconstruction impacted the 20th and 21st centuries.