Reflecting on the History and Legacies of Reconstruction

What's the History of Reconstruction? In Many States, Students Don't ...

This period—Reconstruction—marked an enormous advancement of, and backlash to, Black Americans' civil rights, political power, and economic ...

Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and its Legacies

evoking the idea of reflecting on the past. Courtesy of the ... During Reconstruction, the Black church was a cornerstone for newly ...

Learning from Reconstruction - Williams Today

Reflecting a soberly optimistic interpretation of the American past, the chorus of progressive voices seeking a usable past in the original Reconstruction ...

Make Good the Promises - Reconstruction and Its Legacies - YouTube

This exhibition focuses on the period following the Civil War—through an African American lens. The United States emerged from the Civil War ...

Barack Obama and the Legacy of Reconstruction - AAIHS

We might think of the past six years as a strange reflection of Reconstruction, two eras in which selective black achievement allows too ...

Reconstruction in Public History and Memory at the Sesquicentennial

What legacies of the slavery era did the Union's defeat in Reconstruction permit to persist into the modern day, through the legal and political institutions ...

RECONSTRUCTION - Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area

Research & Resources · RECONSTRUCTION: 1865-1875 · LEGACIES: 1870-1930.

Reflecting on Lift Every Voice 2020: Public Scholarship and the ...

Works in this bibliography extend Reconstruction beyond Congressional activities; center the activism of freedpeople, their children, and their ...

Make Good the Promises | National Museum of African American ...

Reconstruction—the period following the Civil War—was a revolutionary moment in the nation's history. For the first time, African Americans were recognized by ...

How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism - Time

Another lesson this era of our history teaches us is that, even when stripped of their rights by courts, legislatures and revised state ...

A Short History of Reconstruction - The New York Public Library

That the Reconstruction of the North receives less attention than its Southern counterpart reflects, in part, the absence of a detailed historical literature on ...

Forum: The Future of Reconstruction Studies

Reconstruction furthermore offers a useful—and useable—past to readers: its “unfinished revolution” provides a teleological framework for understanding the ...

Toolkit for “Be Your Own Historian” | Learning for Justice

Essential questions republished with generous permission from Facing History and Ourselves. Reflecting on Current Practice. When you teach Reconstruction, are ...

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle

Historical connections to Reconstruction surround us today: the Movement for Black Lives, rising white supremacist violence, virulent voter suppression, ...

Reconstruction - Texas State Historical Association

For nine years following the Civil War, Texas was in turmoil, as its people attempted to solve political, social, and economic problems produced ...

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction - Jacobin

WEB Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America thrust African Americans into the role of historical actors and showed that the black freedom struggle has always ...

Was Reconstruction in America a failure? : r/history - Reddit

Radical Republicans take control of the government and radically attempt to impose a large set of new rules and freedoms set to integrate ex ...

What did the Reconstruction era do for African Americans? - Quora

After Reconstruction they had some rights, some power and some access to non subservient jobs. This gave them something to build off of as they ...

The legacy of Reconstruction reverberates. So why aren't students ...

A new report from the nonprofit Zinn Education Project found that 45 states have insufficient or non-existent lesson coverage of Reconstruction in schools.

The Legacy of Reconstruction: resources and tips to teach this era

Through a reflection page, students took notes on what their Seminar ... Looking for hope and resistance in the history of Reconstruction:.