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Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2019
Penguin Press
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Film Review
An Unfinished Revolution
A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.
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James Oakes
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New York Review of Books
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November 21, 2019
Book Review
An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”
A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.
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Robert D. Bland
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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May 10, 2019
Book Review
How the South Won the Civil War
During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.
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Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
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April 1, 2019