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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race relations after the abolition of slavery and rise of Jim Crow. Reconstruction also struggled to successfully manage the Southern resistance towards a Northern, free-labor pattern. But the failures cannot obscure a number of notable accomplishments, with decisive long-term consequences for American life.

We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we were. Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew and destroyed that political order.

Newly Updated From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated abridged edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. “[A] smart book of enormous strengths.”--Boston Globe In this updated...

A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality - in the face of murderous violence - in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and 13 years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively.

From the ""preeminent historian of Reconstruction"" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America. Eric Foner's ""masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history"" (New Republic) redefined how the...

Laurent Fabius défend les fondamentaux du socialisme, parmi lesquels figure en bonne place la croyance au progrès. Un progrès qu'Alain Finkielkraut juge destructeur et déshumanisant.

An available audiobook in cooperation with Spoken Realms. The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction (1924) by Alrutheus Ambush Taylor Narrated by Joseph Tabler.

After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, a former slave from Mississippi, embarked on an extraordinary political journey starting in 1869 as Justice of the Peace and later becoming a Mississippi State Representative. At just 26 years old, he was elected to the US Congress in 1873, where he actively championed several important bills, including a pivotal debate supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1875, aimed at ending discrimination in public accommodations. In 1884, Lynch made history as the first African American nominated for the position of Temporary Chairman of the Republican National ...

In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento.

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide. Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to...

First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious scholarship that had previously dominated the narrative, Franklin combines astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era.

NOS RECONSTRUCTIONS c'est quoi ? Personnelles, collectives, urbaines, familiales, écologiques, sociales, combatives, artistiques,amoureuses... Comment (se) reconstruit-on ?Et d’abord: que faut-il reconstruire ?? Comment ça va se passer ? Une soirée ouverte à toutes et tous dans un lieu incroyable du Havre: Port Center. Une occasion de parler, discuter, débattre, rêver ensemble de nos reconstructions, passées et à venir.

The podcast that explores the Civil War, what led to it, and the world the Civil War created. From ”Black Confederates” to Reconstruction, the Lost Cause to the rising power of Black voters after the war, this podcast examines some of the most controversial issues of the mid-19th Century-and today! Your host, Patrick Young, is the author of The Immigrants’ Civil War and The Reconstruction Era Blog. He is Special Professor of Law at Hofstra University.

Doctrine, reproof, and correction so that the people of God will mature and be equipped to produce good works. (2 Tim. 3:16)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

Enfant, Julie a subi des agressions sexuelles de la part de son voisin. Un père de famille. Un ami de ses parents. Elle n’en a pas parlé avant ses 16 ans. Un soir de vacances, elle s’est confiée pour la première fois à sa meilleure amie : Nina Pareja. Pendant longtemps, elles n’ont pas su quoi faire de ces souvenirs, de ce passé, de cette violence. Mais en 2019, à 25 ans, Julie a décidé qu'elle voulait que cela change. Que l’on fasse quelque chose de son récit intime. Nina, devenue journaliste, lui a proposé de l'aider à raconter son histoire. Pendant trois ans, elles ont ...

The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions and won the Southern Civil War, successfully overthrowing democratically elected governments.

A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or...

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of...