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Reconciliation Did Not Destroy Reconstruction
Historians and commentators are revisiting the post-Civil War era, arguing that the narrative of national reconciliation has long obscured the collapse of Reconstruction. The claim being circulated is that America's impulse to heal sectional divisions came at the cost of abandoning Black citizenship rights in the South, a debate that continues to shape how the period is remembered and taught.
Why now: Ongoing public debates about Civil War memory and how Reconstruction is taught have pushed this historical argument back into discussion.
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