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16 de dic. de 2021 · Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2019). Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (New York: Penguin Press, 2019). Allen C. Guelzo, Reconstruction: A Concise History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Reconstruction Acts, U.S. legislation enacted in 1867–68 that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. The bills were largely written by the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress. Learn more about the acts’ requirements.
This exhibit examines one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in American history. It presents an up-to-date portrait of a period whose unrealized goals of economic and racial justice still confront our society.
29 de ene. de 2024 · Reconstruction (1865-1877), the period that followed the American Civil War, is perhaps the most controversial era in American history. Traditionally portrayed by historians as a sordid time when vindictive Radical Republicans fastened black supremacy upon the defeated Confederacy, Reconstruction has lately been viewed more sympathetically, as a laudable experiment in interracial democracy.
Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...
Reconstruction involved more than the meaning of emancipation. Women also sought to redefine their roles within the nation and in their local communities. In Reconstruction, leading women’s rights advocates like Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw an unprecedented opportunity for disenfranchised groups—women as well as African Americans, ...
About The Film. Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.The series explores the transformative years following the ...
