Multimedia

Reconstruction

These videos and podcasts by eminent scholars, master teachers, and other speakers open a variety of ways to explore American history. The presentations range from two- or three-minute interview clips to hour-long lectures. Whether you watch them in class, assign them to your students for homework, or download them to your iPod for a long road trip, each one can give you new insight into the past.

Frederick Douglass on Lincoln and Reconstruction

Speaker(s): Matthew Pinsker Duration: 0 seconds

Reconstruction and Citizenship

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

Reconstruction and Its Legacy

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

The Changing Views of Reconstruction

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

The Politics of Reconstruction

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

The Significance of Reconstruction

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

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1866: The Birth of Civil Rights

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

Africans’ Appropriations of the Symbolism of Abraham Lincoln

Speaker(s): Kevin Gaines Duration: 0 seconds

In Hope of Liberty: Northern Free Blacks, 1700–1860

Speaker(s): James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton Duration: 0 seconds

Introduction to Supreme Court Controversies throughout History

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Key Moments in American Freedom

Speaker(s): Orlando Patterson Duration: 0 seconds

Lincoln and the Rights of Black Americans

Speaker(s): Eric Foner Duration: 0 seconds

Teaching the Constitution

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

The Civil War

Speaker(s): David Blight Duration: 0 seconds

The Effects of the Civil War on the South

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

The Slaughterhouse Cases

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds