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History doesn't remember. *People* remember.
Reconstruction ended ~150 years ago. For most of that time, Americans have misunderstood, misremembered, & willfully misrepresented it - despite a vast historical record to the contrary.
But within a few decades, historians used its evidence to exonerate the Klan and indict the whole project of Reconstruction. 🗃️
History doesn't remember. *People* remember.
Reconstruction ended ~150 years ago. For most of that time, Americans have misunderstood, misremembered, & willfully misrepresented it - despite a vast historical record to the contrary.