248 reactions · 61 shares | "I call the summer of 1867 the First Freedom Summer...80% of all eligible black men registered to vote." Saturday on "Lectures in History," guest speaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. talks to The Citadel class about the Reconstruction Era. Watch on C-SPAN 2 at 11am & 8pm ET https://www.c-span.org/video/?513090-2/reconstruction-era | American History TV | Facebook

51K views · 149 reactions | This weekend on Lectures in History, UConn professor Manisha Sinha teaches a class on Interpreting the Reconstruction Era. WATCH Saturday 8pm & midnight ET on C-SPAN 3. | American History TV | Facebook

1.3K views · 25 reactions | What can we learn from Reconstruction for today's civil rights debates? TODAY at 2pm ET, watch a discussion with historians Eric Foner & Thavolia Glymph in front of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. View on C-SPAN 3. | American History TV | Facebook