Black hole Quote by Ron Chernow

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Over a century ago, prodded by the demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first attempt to…

— Eric Foner

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this…

— William R. Ferris

The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.

— Vicente Fox

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life…

— Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the…

— Geoffrey Elton

“Our progress in the past usually came slowly, and our recovery will come slowly. It will come as men, each in their sphere of…

— R.J. Rushdoony

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war…

— Corey Stewart

A slew of federal civil rights legislation protecting the newly freed slaves was passed during the relatively brief but extraordinary period of black advancement…

— Michelle Alexander

“Issues that agitate American politics—who is an American citizen and what rights come along with citizenship, the relative powers of the national government and…

— Eric Foner

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

— Bryan Stevenson