Setting the Stage: Reconstruction

Gregory Downs, UC DavisCUNY Graduate Center, July 19, 2016In this talk, Gregory Down provides historical context for viewing U.S. slavery in a global context and presents the complexities of reconstruction efforts to create a unified United States after the Civil War. Down focuses on the passage of new constitutional amendments, General Grant’s presidency, and the transition of political power in 1877. This talk took place on July 19, 2016, as part of ASHP’s Visual Culture of the Civil War Summer Institute, an NEH professional development program for college and university faculty.

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Setting the Stage: Reconstruction is an episode from ASHP Podcast by American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.

This episode is 48:56 long.

This episode was published on Aug 24, 2017.

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