Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise
In Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, Malcolm Gladwell explores why America has yet to make good on the promise of Reconstruction—and how it still might.
In Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, Malcolm Gladwell explores why America has yet to make good on the promise of Reconstruction—and how it still might.
Reconstruction begins where, for most, the story of the Civil War ends: the North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history. For a brief moment, a determined band of reformers attempted to radically reimagine American society and grapple with our original sin. In Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, host Malcolm Gladwell explores why America has yet to make good on the promise of Reconstruction—and how it still might.
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