Reconstruction

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/3/20
  

  What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification

  by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson

  Here are some suggestions for educators and others interested in learning more about that time period.

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• 12/29/19
  

  Confederate Monuments in National Perspective

  by Thomas J. Brown

  Northern monuments established a foundation for the argument that Confederate military service deserves recognition although rendered in a deplorable cause.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  December 1, 2019
  

  Michael Kazin Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book, The Second Founding

  by Michael Kazin

  Eric Foner’s story of American freedom, The Second Founding, sheds new light on how the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/18/19
  

  What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy: The NY Times Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book

  by Lincoln Caplan

  “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  The Lost Promise of Reconstruction

  by Eric Foner

  Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?

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• 9/8/19
  

  The American Left Needs a Contemporary Thad Stevens

  by Van Gosse

  Protest, “resistance,” and speaking truth to power are no longer enough. Leftists need to think about how to wield power in our complex political system and Thad Stevens offers a valuable blueprint. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/19/19
  

  From Reconstruction To WWII, How The U.S. Census Has Been Used For Both Good And Bad

  "We're seeing something that has a very dangerous kind of echo to other less progressive approaches to using the census."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  When Slaveowners Got Reparations

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.

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• SOURCE: UCONN
  Accessed 4/17/19
  

  Livestream event: The Greater Reconstruction: American Democracy after the Civil War

  Details about the conference and livestream. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  Ilhan Omar is a Reconstruction Reformer

  by William Horne

  The failure to hold the race-baiting press, politicians, and vigilantes responsible during Reconstruction undermined any semblance of equality for more than 100 years. We can't make the same mistake. 

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• SOURCE: PBS
  3/29/19
  

  Video of the Week: inside look at PBS's Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

  See how our past affects our present with this inside look of Reconstruction with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  Stony the Road: From black triumph to racial hysteria to the ‘new Negro’

  by Howell Raines

  An illuminating ook review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s  “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow.”

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/2/19
  

  How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

  by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.

  Regardless of its brevity, Reconstruction remains one of the most pivotal eras in the history of race relations in American history —­ and probably the most misunderstood.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/21/19
  

  Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstruction

  by Ed Kilgore

  As in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, one party is committed to the use of federal power to vindicate voting rights, and the other is opposed.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/4/19
  

  Grant’s First Tomb

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Ulysses S. Grant, inaugurated as president 150 years ago today, missed a chance to reconstruct the South economically as well as politically.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/2/19
  

  In Upcoming Documentary, Henry Louis Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction

  The 4-part documentary will air on PBS starting April 9th. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-16-18
  

  Historians urge Congress to pass bill to enhance public’s understanding of Reconstruction

  by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur

  "It would establish the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, based on similar networks Congress has created for the Civil Rights Movement and the Underground Railroad. These networks foster collaboration within national parks."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  9-28-18
  

  The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago

  In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

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• 9/9/18
  

  What Was also Wrong About the Claim that Andrew Gillum’s Election as Florida’s Governor “Would Monkey This Up”

  by Tim Roberts

  It played on a stereotype as old as Reconstruction that blacks can’t be trusted with power.

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• SOURCE: Press Release – PBS
  7-30-18
  

  PBS Announces RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  It will air in the Spring of 2019 on PBS.