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How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction Alive

November 13, 2023 · Politics

The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in…

What The Atlantic Got Wrong About Reconstruction

November 13, 2023 · Politics

The last time The Atlantic decided to reckon with Reconstruction in a sustained way, its editor touted “a series of scholarly, unpartisan studies of the Reconstruction Period” as…