Historian Eric Foner’s course on Reconstruction was videoed a few years ago and posted on-line. These segments look at the influence of the Dunning School on how Americans understood, and misunderstood, the Reconstruction Era.
The first video looks at the politics of the memory and history of Reconstruction:
The second discusses the impact of William Dunning and the Dunning School:
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Eric Foner’s brilliance on display here. All should be listening to him.