Explore the relationship between Reconstruction and African American Life. Filmed in six states of the former Confederacy, this unique documentary explores the relationship between Reconstruction ...

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Watch PBS-TV’s “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War,” and you’ll find yourself wondering at times how the newly reunited nation even managed to survive, much less thrive. You won’t hear the program’s ...

The legacy of slavery, the Civil War and its aftermath are much-discussed in American politics, but seldom expansively enough to bring genuine context to them. PBS and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

I probably wasn't paying attention that day in high-school history class when we covered post-Civil War Reconstruction. I may have been watching a work crew redo the gym roof, or passing stupid notes ...