Problem: The historians Eric Foner ("Why Reconstruction Matters") and Steven Hahn ("Afterword: What Sort of World Did the Civil War Make?") present the period known as Reconstruction in radically different lights.
a) Briefly summarize the core argument of each reading.
b) Clearly describe how these two readings present the aftermath of the Civil War differently.
c) To what extent are these two interpretations in conflict? Or are they not in conflict at all? Explain your answer.