title: Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
author:  Mitchell Snay 
description: "It would seem impossible at this point to say something genuinely new about Reconstruction, but by placing that era's concerns with land, race, and nationality in an international context, Mitchell Snay adds a new dimension to our understanding of the postwar years."<span> </span>- Eric Foner<i></i>
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  ## THE FIERY TRIAL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Other Books by Eric Foner
  
  
  Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before
  the Civil War (1970)
  
  
  America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History (editor, 1970)
  
  
  Nat Turner (editor, 1971)
  
  
  Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)
  
  
  Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980)
  
  
  Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983)
  
  
  Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)
  
  
  A Short History of Reconstruction (1990)
  
  
  A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (with Olivia Mahoney, 1990)
  
  
  The New American History (editor, 1990; rev. ed. 1997)
  
  
  The Reader's Companion to American History (editor, with John A. Garraty,
  1991)
  
  
  Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction
  (editor, 1993; rev. ed. 1996)
  
  
  Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (editor, 1995)
  
  
  America's Reconstruction: People and Politics afte