'Reconstruction' connects post-war past to 21st century

The legacy of slavery, the Civil War and its aftermath are much-discussed in American politics, but seldom expansively enough to bring genuine context to them. PBS and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. address that shortcoming in "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War," a four-hour documentary that weaves together the past with policies and debates that remain much in evidence today.

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