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The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States into the
Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era, published in 2017 by Louisiana State University Press, edited by Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker, with an introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, is a collection of ten essays by historians of the Reconstruction era who examine the different collective memories of different social groups from the time of ...
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner. Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War , which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences of the war's ...
The Dunning School was a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877), supporting conservative elements against the Radical Republicans who introduced civil rights in the South.
During Reconstruction, Revels was elected alderman in Natchez in 1868. [10] In 1869 he was elected to represent Adams County in the Mississippi State Senate. Congressman John R. Lynch later wrote of him in his book on Reconstruction: Revels was comparatively a new man in the community.
Artist Kerry James Marshall, center, speaks to attendees after an unveiling and dedication ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral for the new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial ...
The Facts of Reconstruction is a rebuttal to the conservative Dunning School of historiography, which argued that the South had been damaged by the efforts of the North at Reconstruction and that the use of the military to advance Reconstruction efforts was a dismissal of American values.
It sounds fake, but it's not. In adapting James Swanson's book, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, for television, Beletsky says, "I try to be as historically accurate as possible and ...