Description
Learn the uncomfortable truth of the story of what happened and what did not happen during the critical period after the Civil War, known as Reconstruction and its aftermath is prologue to issues we continue to face regarding the status of Black Americans in our times. What older generations of Americans learned as “the facts” in history growing up was so tainted that if affects our opinions about the teaching of history in today’s classrooms. Explore examples of how Reconstruction has been taught and how that narrative differs from current scholarship.
