American Experience; Interview with David W. Blight, Historian, Yale University, part 6 of 6 : Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
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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. Blight talks about black commemoration of the Civil War, a long discussion of "Birth of a Nation," Reconstruction stereotypes in "Gone with the Wind," John Lynch's book "The Facts of Reconstruction," Augustus Staint-Gaudens' monument to the Massachusetts 54th black infantry and Robert Gould Shaw.