America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

“America’s Reconstruction: The Untold Story” is a three week summer institute for K-12 educators from July 5-25, 2022. Through seminars led by top scholars and study trips to locations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, educators will learn more about one of the most neglected and misunderstood periods in US history: the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction. We will closely examine three broad themes over the course of the institute, including: (1) the Old South and wartime “prelude” to Reconstruction (2) the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, and (3) American historical memory, the “Second Reconstruction” (Civil Rights Movement) and the place of Reconstruction memory in modern America.