RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t.) will take a broad view of the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, beginning with the hopeful moment of war’s end and emancipation in 1865 and ...

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 ...

RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a new four-hour documentary executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will premiere Tuesdays, April 9 and 16, 2019 on PBS nationwide ...

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

Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS. Share full article. 19. ... Many people, if they have any sense of the era at all, came by it through “Gone With the Wind” or, ...

And in 2017, the Reconstruction Era National Monument was established in Robert Smalls' hometown of Beaufort, S.C. Just down the road, you can see the house he lived in as a free man and the ...

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 ...

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. Airing over a span of five nights during late September in 1990, Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” remains, to this day, the only documentary that claims to explain the entirety of the war ...

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