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The 1870s: A decade of Reconstruction, innovation and uneasy progress

As 1870 dawned, America was still reeling from the trauma of the Civil War. More than 600,000 lives had been lost, cities and ...
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America's Reconstruction: From Civil War to a New Nation

The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by returning Confederate and Union veterans. It highlights the political conflict ...
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“Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction,” featuring historian Kate Masur

All Case Western Reserve University community members are invited to attend the lecture “Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction” featuring ...
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The wars of Reconstruction : the brief, violent history of America's most progressive era / Douglas R. Egerton

Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the Union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": War's end, activism's beginning ...
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Audacious democracy : labor, intellectuals, and the social reconstruction of America / edited by Steven Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman

America needs a raise / John J. Sweeney -- History's geiger counter / Betty Friedan -- Family values and the invisible working class / Lillian B. Rubin -- Intellectuals and labor : a brief history / ...
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First phase of main Madison artery reconstruction to begin this fall

Madison s John Nolen Drive will undergo a 34 million reconstruction this fall, with upgrades to bridges, bike paths and ...
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40 Years Ago, R.E.M.’s ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ Marked a Darker Tone for the Band

Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry of R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia, 1985. (Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a ...