14. Wartime Reconstruction

Questions:
Why did Reconstruction become so contentious an issue for the Union?
How wide was the gap between Lincoln and the Radicals in their plans for Reconstruction?

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (1988), cc 1-4. [or the same chapt) ers in Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction]
William C. Harris, With Charity For All: Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction (1997)
Herman Belz, Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the Civil War (1969)
Phillip S. Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1994)
Donald, “Lincoln and the Radicals” from Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era (3rd ed., New York: Vintage Books, 2001)