RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a new four-hour documentary executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will premiere Tuesdays, April 9 and 16, 2019 on PBS nationwide.

But what makes the two-night, four-hour “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,” so powerful is how it both deepens our knowledge of a misunderstood time in the nation’s history ...

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"After the Civil War, interracial coalitions -- majority ... Although Reconstruction was short-lived, Foner, the author of Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, writes that it ...

America’s Reconstruction era ... Aware of the reports that white supremacists, just one year after the end of the Civil War, were “daily putting into secret graves not only hundreds but ...

Grant after the Battle ... history of the Reconstruction era, Williams, an associate professor of history at Wayne State University, upends the narrative of the post-Civil War era as a redressing ...

America fought a Civil War where slavery was at the ... would be abolished forever. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865.

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attack on the US Capitol is difficult to comprehend without understanding the history behind the nation’s three periods of Reconstruction. American history since the end of the Civil War has ...