You can find lots of recommendations on our booklist. That is a lot to navigate and you may want to hop right in, but the best two to start with are Battle Cry of Freedom and Reconstruction. Both are products of the 1980s that still hold up well today and are pretty accessible to the ordinary reader. If you can, get the new edition of Reconstruction because Foner has an essay at the front where he goes over the field's development since publication.

You can find lots of recommendations on our booklist. That is a lot to navigate and you may want to hop right in, but the best two to start with are Battle Cry of Freedom and Reconstruction. Both are products of the 1980s that still hold up well today and are pretty accessible to the ordinary reader. If you can, get the new edition of Reconstruction because Foner has an essay at the front where he goes over the field's development since publication.