Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

Award-winning historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses what America’s forgotten Reconstruction era meant for African-Americans and why it’s still relevant today. Read Transcript EXPAND ...

McGee Media, via PBS Reconstruction: America After the Civil ... Many people, if they have any sense of the era at all, came by it through “Gone With the Wind” or, even more grievously ...

will premiere Tuesdays, April 9 and 16, 2019 on PBS nationwide ... The film takes a broad view of the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, beginning with the hopeful moment of war’s end ...

will premiere next spring on PBS stations nationwide ... AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t.) will take a broad view of the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, beginning with the hopeful moment ...

"It was a time of unparalleled hope," said Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who has produced a new documentary about Reconstruction airing this month on PBS ... the Jim Crow era of segregation ...

will premiere next spring on PBS stations nationwide ... AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t.) will take a broad view of the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, beginning with the hopeful moment ...

PBS and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. address that shortcoming in “Reconstruction ... and the disparate views of two key leaders of the era, W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, regarding ...

Ralph Northam held his blackface-meets-KKK med school yearbook photo press conference on Saturday as Ivy League historians took questions about PBS‘s four-hour Reconstruction: America After the ...

PBS and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. address that shortcoming in “Reconstruction ... and the disparate views of two key leaders of the era, W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, regarding ...

His newest book is The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song During an interview with Chris Rock for my PBS ... of the era, puts it, “The issues central to Reconstruction ...