American experience. Reconstruction, the second Civil War. Interview with Eric Foner, historian, Columbia University. 4 of 5 / [produced by WGBH].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Foner, Eric, 1943- interviewee.

Deane, Elizabeth (Elizabeth K.), director, producer.

Garcia Rios, Patricia, director, producer.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Southern States--History--1865-1877.

Southern States.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.

United States.

United States--Race relations--19th century.

Genre:

Interviews.

Unedited footage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 minutes)

Other Title:

Interview with Eric Foner, historian, Columbia University, 4 of 5

Reconstruction, the second Civil War

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2004.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, Amos Akerman and efforts against the Klan, the Fifteenth Amendment, sharecropping and overproduction of cotton.

Participant:

Eric Foner, interviewee.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017).

OCLC:

1009099101