American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. 3 of 3

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In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Ayers talks about the changing image of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause, women as guardians of the Confederacy, Northern tourism in the south, Thomas Dixon and "Birth of a Nation", Reconstruction as a time of great possibility and disappointment.

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44 minutes

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Alexander Street

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