Reconstruction : America after the Civil War. Part 1. Hour 1 / a film by McGee Media and Inkwell Films ; series producer, Julia Marchesi ; produced and directed by Rob Rapley ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films and WETA Washington, DC.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., host, narrator, screenwriter.

Rapley, Rob, producer, director.

McGee Media (Firm), production company.

Inkwell Films (Firm), production company.

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

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

Southern States--History--1865-1877.

Southern States.

United States--History--1865-1898.

United States.

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

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (56 minutes)

Other Title:

America after the Civil War

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series 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. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a 'brief moment in the sun' for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.

Participant:

Host and narrator, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; with Matthew Wasniewski, Mark Lund, Andia Winslow, Khalil Muhammad, John Stauffer, Laura Turner O'Hara, Peggy Davis, Edward Ayers, Vincent Brown, Edna Greene Medford, Thomas Holt, Eric Foner, Kate Masur, Gregory Downs, Martha Jones.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 08, 2020).

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 2019.

OCLC:

1191031935

Publisher Number:

ASP5067716/marc