Get emails on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War news, photos & more. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War is a 4 part series that will take a broad view of the Reconstruction era and ...

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.

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WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” — which began last week — ended Tuesday, with the first hour covering the period 1877 to 1896, and the rise of ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...