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Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise

Written by: Malcolm Gladwell, Barack Obama
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell, Barack Obama, Wyatt Cenac, Jelani Cobb, Kai Wright, Ashley C Ford, Manisha Sinha, Kellie Carter Jackson, Kidada E. Williams
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Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union.

Drawing from archives, letters, diaries, court records, eyewitness testimonies and some of America’s most accomplished scholars and storytellers, Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores this unprecedented historical moment in rich, kaleidoscopic detail. The series unpacks a time when a determined band of reformers attempted to radically reimagine American society — from the Constitution to the roots of its economy to the very nature of citizenship itself.

Reconstruction was a time when Americans struggled over fundamental questions about our country. Who gets to be a citizen? Who has the right to vote? Who can own property? In short, who belongs? Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores what America might have looked like if Reconstruction had truly succeeded, and how the ultimate backlash to Reconstruction prevented our country from becoming a truly multiracial democracy.

Guiding us through this extraordinary moment in American history is best-selling author and host of Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell. He’ll have help from luminaries, historians, and storytellers such as President Barack Obama, Jelani Cobb, Wyatt Cenac, David Blight E. Williams, and Eric Foner. This is a series about why America has yet to make good on the promise of Reconstruction, and how it still might.

An Audible Original in partnership with History Channel. Produced by Higher Ground and Pushkin Industries.

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