Q&A: The Myths of Reconstruction 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Recently at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS announced RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t.), a new four-hour documentary executive produced ...

PBS Announces 'Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,' A New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to Air Spring 2019 on PBS ...

Virginia Gov. 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 ...

‘Reconstruction’ review: PBS documentary from Henry Louis Gates Jr. connects America’s post-war past to 21st century ...

Reconstruction, the period in American history that followed the Civil War, was an era filled with great hope and expectations, but it proved far too short to ensure a successful transition from ...