Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America | Reconstruction

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0:00 Reconstruction's Violence and America's Partial Democracy chapter 3

3:14 American Revolution Democracy Limitations

6:24 Reconstruction's Legacy and Democratic Progress

8:18 Human Resistance to Multiracial Democracy

10:17 Reconstruction's Tragedy and Global Color Line chapter 2

12:19 Reconstruction as Necessary Tragedy

13:54 Global Color Line and Reconstruction Backlash

17:29 Lost Cause Mythology and 1877 Compromise chapter 1

20:33 Reconstruction's Erasure and Unresolved Backlash

23:08 Psychology of the 1877 Compromise chapter 1

26:19 Reconstruction Era Political Compromises and Labor

29:27 Reconstruction's Legacy and Leadership Lessons chapter 2

31:11 Balancing Historical Truth and Human Potential

33:01 Counterfactual Reconstruction Leadership

34:57 Reconstruction's Legacy on Modern Democracy chapter 2

37:39 Reconstruction's Legacy on Modern Democracy

40:10 Progress in Multiracial Democracy

43:08 Reconstruction's Legacy and Post-War Black Codes chapter 1

46:48 Economic Roots of Reconstruction's Failure

48:26 Reconstruction Education Legacy and Black Political Representation chapter 2

51:00 Anti-Intellectualism and Black Political Representation

52:58 Senate Representation and Demographic Signaling

55:42 Evolution of Black Political Representation chapter 1

57:59 Reconstruction, Social Change, and the Filibuster

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