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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIJohn W. Dower199942 pts5 wins6 listsThe New PressHistoryReconstruction+2
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877Eric Foner198830 pts3 wins6 listsHarperCollinsHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Unworthy Republic: The dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian TerritoryClaudio Saunt202126 pts3 wins5 listsW. W. NortonHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of SlaveryLeon F. Litwack197924 pts3 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryReconstruction+2
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great MigrationSteven Hahn200522 pts2 wins3 listsBelknap PressRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+3
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryEric Foner200220 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonHistorySlavery & Emancipation+2
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across AmericaClint Smith202220 pts3 wins4 listsLittle, BrownRace & EthnicityAmerican Civil War+2
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights RevolutionDiane McWhorter200118 pts3 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New WorldGreg Grandin201418 pts2 wins3 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryReconstruction+2
Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United StatesCarl N. Degler197118 pts2 wins3 listsMacmillanRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+2
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil WarMelvin Ely200416 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American MemoryDavid W. Blight200214 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaGreg Grandin202014 pts1 wins2 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+2
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in AmericaAndrés Reséndez201714 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtHistoryIndigenous History+2
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of EmancipationDavid Brion Davis200614 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryReconstruction+2
Washington's CrossingDavid Hackett Fischer200414 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Era of Good FeelingsGeorge Dangerfield195214 pts1 wins2 listsHarcourt, Brace and CompanyHistoryPresidency & Executive Power+2
The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865Van Wyck Brooks193614 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryReconstruction+2
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil WarEdda L. Fields-Black202512 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a NationGene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff200812 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since EmancipationJoel Williamson198412 pts2 wins3 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+2
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African HistoryGeorge M. Fredrickson198112 pts1 wins3 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityConstitutional History+2
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955Harald Jähner202212 pts0 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryReconstruction+2
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal PowerJefferson Cowie202310 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in AmericaW. Caleb McDaniel202010 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+2
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White SupremacyDavid Zucchino202010 pts1 wins1 listsAtlantic Monthly PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical WorldCyprian Broodbank201310 pts1 wins1 listsThames & HudsonHistoryReconstruction+3
Nikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie Harries201110 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyReconstruction+3
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIDouglas A. Blackmon200810 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
The Minutemen and Their WorldRobert A. Gross197610 pts1 wins1 listsHill and WangHistorySocial Movements & Activism+3
The Denial of DeathErnest Becker197310 pts1 wins1 listsFree PressSociety & CultureBlack History & Culture+2
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790Rhys L. Isaac198310 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil RightsDylan C. Penningroth202410 pts1 wins3 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the PresentDavid Treuer202010 pts0 wins3 listsRiverhead BooksHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of EmancipationJean M. Hébrard, Rebecca J. Scott20128 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityWorld War Ii+3
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal ExperimentWillie Lee Nichols Rose19648 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryPresidential Biography+1
The Promise of the New South: Life After ReconstructionEdward L. Ayers19928 pts0 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to MeridianShelby Foote19588 pts0 wins2 listsVintage BooksHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the SouthJohn Egerton19946 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in AmericaPatrick Phillips20176 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningEve Fairbanks20234 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for TruthJane Rogoyska20224 pts1 wins1 listsOneworldHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old SouthJeff Forret20154 pts1 wins2 listsLSU PressHistoryReconstruction+3
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of RevolutionMartin J.S. Rudwick20054 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999Timothy Snyder20034 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryReconstruction+3
Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of NationsRay Marshall, Marc Tucker19934 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksBusiness & EconomicsReconstruction+3
The Marshall Plan: America, Great Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-52Michael Hogan19874 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryEurope & Russia+2
Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic PartySusan Dunn20104 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22Carole Fink19854 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressPolitics & GovernmentReconstruction+3
The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First CenturyPeniel E. Joseph20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityReconstruction+3
A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under US OccupationKornel Chang20254 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryAsia & the Pacific+3
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We HealBettina L. Love20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Four Hundred SoulsIbram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain, eds.20224 pts0 wins1 listsOne WorldRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
The 1619 ProjectNikole Hannah-Jones et al.20224 pts0 wins1 listsOne WorldHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to ReconstructionKate Masur20224 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019Keisha N. Blain Ibram X. Kendi20214 pts0 wins1 listsOne WorldRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black HomeownershipKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor20204 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's AmericaJacqueline Jones20134 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Rembrandt's JewsSteven Nadler20034 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+2
The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme CourtJohn W. Dean20014 pts0 wins1 listsFree PressPolitics & GovernmentPresidency & Executive Power+2
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and BeyondSamuel G. Freedman19964 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
Stories of ScottsboroJames Goodman19954 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil WarT. J. Stiles19934 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyAmerican Civil War+2
The UprootedOscar Handlin19514 pts0 wins1 listsLittle, BrownHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+2
Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865Margaret Leech19414 pts0 wins1 listsGreenwood PressHistoryReconstruction+2
The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900Paul Herman Buck19374 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryReconstruction+2
America in 1857: A Nation on the BrinkKenneth M. Stampp19914 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Awakening from the American DreamRufus E. Miles, Jr.19774 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono RebellionPeter H. Wood19754 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-IncriminationLeonard W. Levy19694 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and PoliticsDon E. Fehrenbacher19794 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American WestMartha A. Sandweiss20254 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryGender & Feminism+2
The Republican Era: 1869–1901Leonard D. White, Jean Schneider19594 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryPresidency & Executive Power+2
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766Lawrence H. Gipson19624 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryReconstruction+2
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — and How Abolition Can Build a Safer WorldDorothy Roberts20224 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Wasp FarmHoward Ensign Evans19644 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentReconstruction+2
Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National IdentityDonald Yacovone20222 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonRace & EthnicityReconstruction+2
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War IIPaul Betts20202 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryWorld War Ii+3
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of AmericaEdward L. Ayers20182 pts0 wins1 listsVikingHistoryReconstruction+3
More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889Stephen Kantrowitz20122 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressHistoryReconstruction+3
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea PartyGeoffrey Kabaservice20112 pts0 wins2 listsOxford University PressPolitics & GovernmentReconstruction+2
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to SegregationSteve Luxenberg20192 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+2
The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to DestructionJay Howard Geller20192 pts0 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryReconstruction+2
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the ConstitutionEric Foner20192 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryReconstruction+2
You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of SlaveryJeremy D. Popkin20102 pts0 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic SlaveryVincent Brown20082 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryReconstruction+2
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund BurkeRichard Bourke20150 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyConstitutional History+3
Jim Crow's Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in LouisianaThomas Aiello20150 pts0 wins1 listsLSU PressTrue Crime & JusticeReconstruction+3
The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin PoetryPeter Heslin20150 pts0 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and JihadBrian A. Catlos20140 pts0 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Ancient WinePatrick E. McGovern20030 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
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All awards · Topic: Reconstruction · Sorted by score · 94 books · filtered