I don't remember learning anything about reconstruction.

I remember something about carpet baggers, maybe in middle school or high school.

I'm actually a teacher and I teach a unit on reconstruction from the time right after

the Civil War and we continue all the way up to the Civil Rights era.

I do that through a lot of primary sources, a lot of government reports and double

ACP reports.

I first learned about reconstruction as a college student at UNCG.

I was a history major and one of the courses I took was in reconstruction.

I began to learn about reconstruction in elementary and middle school and in Tennessee

and back then the teaching of reconstruction was that it was well-intended but African-American

students did not know how to use their freedom and they were corrupted and were taking

advantage of and tragically it ended.

Studying to be a social studies teacher now, it's really important to me to make sure

that the accuracy of reconstruction is taught to generations after me so I'm really hoping

to do that.

Last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol made a lot of Americans believe our democracy is

in peril.

From everything to a contested election to white supremacist militias many historians say

we've been here before.

What year is giving people historical day javu?

1877, the end of reconstruction.

That's the period immediately following the Civil War when the promise of racial equity

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