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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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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.
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Racist imagery saturated popular culture and Southern propaganda manipulated the story.
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Hour three of the series examines the years 1877-1896
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Post-Civil War America was a new world.
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The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating . . . and terrifying.