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Video: “Why Reconstruction Matters” With Henry Louis Gates, Eric Foner, and Kimberly Crenshaw

In October Columbia University did another of its free online Zoom symposiums. Here is the description from Columbia: On October 20, 2020, leading scholars examined…

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“Stony the Road” by Henry Louis Gates Named a “Must Read Book” by Time Magazine

Henry Louis Gates’s Reconstruction book Stony the Road was named one of Time Magazine’s “Must Read Books of 2019.” Here is what Time says about…

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Historian James Oakes Writes on Recent Works by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates

Historian James Oakes writes about recent books, and a PBS documentry from Henry Louis Gates and Eric Foner in this week’s New York Review of…

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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates published by Penguin Press (2019) 320 pages $30.00 Hardcover $14.99…

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The Lost Cause that Built Jim Crow: Henry Louis Gates in the NY Times

Professor Henry Louis Gates has an interesting article in today’s New York Times that examines the role of the Lost Cause and Redeemer narratives in…

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New Book on Reconstruction by Henry Louis Gates Reviewed by The Nation Magazine

The new book on the Reconstruction Era by Henry Louis Gates is reviewed by The Nation Magazine.  Here is an excerpt from the review of…

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“Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” Documentary to Run this Week on Many PBS Stations

Beginning tomorrow, many PBS stations are rerunning Henry Louis Gates’s four hour series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. Check your local PBS station’s schedule…

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