Interviews With Reconstruction Historians

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park makes efforts to engage with current scholarship on Reconstruction. To help facilitate this, beginning the Spring of 2020, park staff began a series called "Ranger Chats on Reconstruction" to interview academic historians of the Reconstruction.

This video series also includes public historians at other sites, as well as park produced short videos highlighting specific Reconstruction stories.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Duration:
13 minutes, 11 seconds

Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Dr. Jonathan White, of Christopher Newport University, about his research related to the education of freed people during Reconstruction, as well as his recent publication, "My Work among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss," which explores, in part, the experience of a wartime schoolteacher in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Last updated: December 29, 2021

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