# Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise

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Author: Higher Ground Audio
Episodes: 10

## Resource

Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union. Drawing from archives, letters, diaries, court records, eyewitness testimonies and some of America’s most accomplished scholars and storytellers, Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores this unprecedented historical moment in rich, kaleidoscopic detail. The series unpacks a time when a determined band of reformers attempted to radically reimagine American society — from the Constitution to the roots of its economy to the very nature of citizenship itself. Reconstruction was a time when Americans struggled over fundamental questions about our country. Who gets to be a citizen? Who has the right to vote? Who can own property? In short, who belongs? Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores what America might have looked like if Reconstruction had truly succeeded, and how the ultimate backlash to Reconstruction prevented our country from becoming…

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## Episodes
- [The Forever Culture Wars](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/the-forever-culture-wars) — 2026-07-16T07:01:00+00:00
- [Peace Among The Whites](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/peace-among-the-whites) — 2026-07-09T07:00:00+00:00
- [A History of Democracy, Revised](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/a-history-of-democracy-revised) — 2026-07-09T07:00:00+00:00
- [Truth Without Reconciliation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/truth-without-reconciliation) — 2026-07-02T07:01:00+00:00
- [The Betrayal of Frederick Douglass](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/the-betrayal-of-frederick-douglass) — 2026-07-02T07:01:00+00:00
- [Love and Sacrifice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/love-and-sacrifice) — 2026-06-25T07:01:00+00:00
- [Nine Black Men](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/nine-black-men) — 2026-06-25T07:01:00+00:00
- [Prologue: Malcolm Gladwell and President Obama](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/prologue-malcolm-gladwell-and-president-obama) — 2026-06-18T16:02:00+00:00
- [After the War](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/after-the-war) — 2026-06-18T16:02:00+00:00
- [Introducing Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise-7826212/introducing-reconstruction-the-unfinished-promise) — 2026-06-18T16:01:00+00:00

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