Books like Reconstruction

Reconstruction by Eric Foner reads as analytical, authoritative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

How the Irish became White

Noel Ignatiev · 1995

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Civilisation ou barbarie

Cheikh Anta Diop · 1981

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Race and Reunion

David W. Blight · 2001

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The myth of the Negro past

Melville J. Herskovitz · 1941

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · 2014

Same nonfiction feel

51% genome match

Frederick Douglass

William S. McFeely · 1991

Both explore civil-rights & american-history

73% genome match

Lose your mother

Saidiya V. Hartman · 2006

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

Lincoln

David Herbert Donald · 1995

Both explore american-history

67% genome match

Before the Mayflower

Lerone Bennett · 1960

Same nonfiction feel

49% genome match

The mis-education of the Negro

Carter Godwin Woodson · 1933

Same nonfiction feel

48% genome match

From slavery to freedom

John Hope Franklin · 1947

Same nonfiction feel

47% genome match

100 amazing facts about the Negro

J. A. Rogers · 1955

Same nonfiction feel

48% genome match