Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Julia Marchesi
• Cast(s): Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

• Similar To: Toughest Forces on Earth, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
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  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy.

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