His new book is The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing the term “double consciousness ...

America’s Second Reconstruction transformed the social compact for Black folk, and the legacies from this period still reverberate nationally. We are still engaged in debates over voting rights ...

The concept of a long Reconstruction recognizes that a nation can be two things at once. After 1877, freedom and repression journeyed along parallel paths. Black Americans preserved a vision of a ...

1 Books in Review The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century By Peniel E. Joseph Buy this book One of the most potent analogies has been that of ...

In 1988, Foner published Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, simultaneously underscoring the real accomplishments of Reconstruction and delivering the first ...

It highlights the political conflict between President Andrew Johnson's conservative approach to Reconstruction and the radical Republicans in Congress who sought to enforce civil rights and ...

Born in the aftermath of the bloody Civil War, Reconstruction was America's attempt to make good on its founding promise of civil and political equality. The Reconstruction years of 1865 to 1877 ...

March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act ...

Same house. Same location. Three-hundred-thousand-dollar difference. In “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century,” historian and professor ...

Rather than focus solely on Black rights in the South, she also includes the American West and America’s overseas colonies in the Pacific and Caribbean. She ends Reconstruction in 1920 ...

The Second Reconstruction spanned the civil rights movement from the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. And ...