Met by intransigence in the South and increasing indifference in the North, their efforts failed, and what followed instead was a long and brutal period of reaction. Long an overlooked and misunderstood period of American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of much attention of late, both in scholarship and in our popular and political culture, with events like Charlottesville reigniting debates over how the past should be remembered.įor twelve tumultuous years, from 1865 to 1877, Congressional Republicans attempted to usher in a second American revolution, one that would finally fulfill the promise of the first by rebuilding the fractured union as a biracial democracy.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Penguin Press, 2019). Stony the Road: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
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