American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 3 of 3
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costumes to know why they want to ring watson back in because there's massive hit the wall here says watson's began sentences the day this is a unique and the changes in the united states way to go so it's a safe bet
and they aren't supporting him so the sense of warp your sense of war the west said organization that has the us tuned renounce those us is saying the wall mentions if you are saying no sausage women says in the
law the law schools with all the empty whip it so yeah it has been mm hmm it's both hugh morris
one of nascar's composers themselves ultimately threw out over dc letters home in newspapers tributes to when patients they are basically keeping their supplies back and as i mentioned reconstruction or decades that it was the guardian's it in various rules and signs and so on and see themselves as the garden once they've been contentious from christian world asia
why this decision is organize themselves make sure that they're not passing away those systems certainly he says the sons of the confederacy working very foreign way an issue that has not passed away this is twenty one years old or our listeners
that and they were in the writer's room will not understand that there's just all downs of commerce will weldon johnson says that persons are not being issued textbooks issue a condemnation of intersections in addition to that they were part of the issue that is very close to a lot of things have been so so there's a theory some work to make sure that they're saying there's no cars or something as bell
he's saying there for generations yeah he says this a lot carl wieman is a seven story about the gritty determination in the last hour to face a trial in which china wants is justice centers for the history and the
only reason the nation is a celebration and what we wanted to really use this the basket say that the songs that are on his celebration of the only slavery and some vision while sellers renditions it is you see this yes there was a time in la law center's work exactly is an onstage
and he also will say that it is still in the ignition park service and so in this
city an experiment it's a some veterans want to come back and visit some ways that these scenes out war against iran in the few days acts yourself as vacations or so this that markets itself as a place that russia's and hospitality here
he is is it dc law still be a lot of work and see where they asked me to see what a slate and they romanticize no reason that this city so
he finds a place to live in a place that is free phone and the nsa's and so and that's one thing it is he says for sure there
are still reasons why what resonates about well all true they say that the us and china they see as far as say these dresses while the others to make sure that there is you know he's you know se as a whole generation of white southerners one single reconstruction for many years and lives while politicians owners and
wires were issue understand just was like the chao looking at the house race this is the time to talk to you know the classes were watching all of season two rich robinson say why i think it's is it a civil war says it's now along with the rest of the battles and the last eight years
where whites in news and he discusses the way security they find in less than two hours this is big it's insane
that's right it is mm hmm the flash
our by eighty seven sixty six in reconstruction all that analysis and say that the election at sixty six contested and flown to congress is an opportunity to drop on reconstruction and the us through that debate mm
hmm this is what he says the yuan money there is that laugh this is at these celebrations
veterans and veterans and in way more views and experience all engine and so far so says so there are seven or so their initially lost a lot more so is the solution to the kind of
national international and we want them to be construction business are also holes in this last lap while less is just fine while american tv where reconstruction so the lesson to me is that i saw at a report of the story is she's been far and they all of the same struggles our hearts that this house
and in generations fall asked themselves not saints couple of their last word on them there is vote in the house yesterday that estimate there are ga arguments are the
last soldiers and there are these guys all republicans say that so and friends gets that they are sure though that is a shocking miscarriage larry bird says so this clip
was burns's they don't understand is that the soldiers were made that song in a town near the food still that lesson in the last year since they fall union worry that this is the last in the last eight years longer allow sat shaking hands
nice job it's all ages because and he uses a new
more than a false it's b rick hall has made a huge hole in one nineteen sixty and nineteen seventy nine revolution prosthesis change our day slavery and lots of missions that african americans voting and hold office no sixty five
transformed the south you sit down to sleep and actresses last lecture has a latin american people he will find answers were fine in the streets in new orleans in the us and that bestows reconstruction that sort sarah boss there's that these people have of reconstruction that all this effort all this was an innovation as well as just a few years and it initially
we were worried they'd let people are angry that the white south could be a rejection of the hamas members say it's so strollers and films and this secretive militancy is taking part in this is there is still is that for me it was a cd
it was mostly just you know says as things that didn't work on rebuilding than the us at all options seize power so the people themselves victims look at why politicians are starting their reconstruction of possibilities well one thing to happen and work here and you find a
reaffirmation of the year for generations we've learned only to say no we had freedom and we want an inspiration oh yes she is she's showing you that was saying that people don't think they were worried that so they will cooperate intensely sacha long compromise so we needed to brace themselves here's why one union was those lives and to have a
lot of room for their son while you can easily buy safe environment instead siding with the south down here to pay taxes and said they should course they're in some white southerners who said look it's work together and why all those people emerge to construction drop really low seeded themselves to the us the options to box herself says for losing it or
as well as well he's doing things that our boss is into nineties until some parts of the reconstruction era i'm still involve violence in so this in the fire and more enemies in refusing to move on and civil close to old grievances an
old animosities there's instructions in the house obviously it ranges as the us is the mood there you thinking reconstruction as a failure back on the station owners is you set the foundation for their lives says he uses that time to give a huge you know follow and in those years oh no
and it's the consensus in reconstruction paulson workers it's a larger story is the re prosecution of the nurse aids activists were actually in this last instance over generations all across that the us will send letters the construction is not wrong insensitive to those ideals mississippi's law this hour with a note on it to the next option
this is an awful thing century and you see the massive reconstruction through generations it has been there is a real loss you know this is that
new navy says he is or is the selective memory wall basically forced to that issue yet to revolutionize while dozens of the nose of the race you know it's just it's real nice to
go in this race so these biases his boss fb
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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. Ayers talks about the changing image of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause, women as guardians of the Confederacy, Northern tourism in the south, Thomas Dixon and "Birth of a Nation," Reconstruction as a time of great possibility and dissappointment.
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- American history, African Americans, civil rights, racism, Reconstruction, Confederacy, voting rights, slavery, emancipation
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- Chicago: “American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 3 of 3 ,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 21, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-hq3rv0f02c.
- MLA: “American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 3 of 3 .” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 21, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-hq3rv0f02c>.
- APA: American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 3 of 3 . Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-hq3rv0f02c