starting with henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments past during that time that aim to promote equality for african americans. he then examines the subsequent jim crow laws and other segregationist measures that were passed in southern states. watch american history tvs tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span three. >> i look at the civil war continues with other patrick breen on his book "the land shall be deluged in blood: a new history of the nat turner revolt" a new history of the nat turner revolt. this was part of the gettysburg college civil war institutes annual summer conference. it is about one hour. >> good morning. i am peter carmichael a member of the history department. i'm the director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you patrick breen who is an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. i should note he is also the father of one of our high school scholarship recipients from last year. patrick is the author of the

we have the distinguished henry louis gates, jr.. [applause] >> thank you. next to him is steve luxenberg the author of separate. next to him just as richard gergel author of -- courage the blinding of oscar weathered and three very important posts that talk about the progress and the backlash against progress in civil rights in america and we are going to get into that but first we want to show a little clip that will tell you a little bit about the reconstruction documentary that aired on pbs that dr. gates spearheaded. it will give you a sense of some the stuff we are going to talk about and then we will talk and you will talk. here we go. check it out. >> most of us know that our country fought a civil war in 1860s but less is known about what came afterward the chaotic exhilarating and ultimately devastating period known as reconstruction. did you ever study reconstruction a paragraph or two. we never really studied it. ♪ >> reconstruction was our shining moment in the second founding of our country. >> overnight people who are then divided to leadershi

. >> historian henry louis gates talks about reconstruction which lasted from the end of the civil war until 1877. the amendments passed during this time to promote equality for african-americans and the subsequent jim crow laws and other measures used in southern states to reestablish white supremacy. the national constitution center hosted this event . >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome upstairs to the national competition center. >> we heard the professor downstairs and so were just gonna jump into the conversation. the one thing i have to say is i think you can tell it's urgently important to bring as many schoolkids as possible to come see the incredible exhibit . [ applause ] that is why am thrilled that last week the superintendent of the school district of philadelphia sat with me and announced that the school district and the constitution center are launching up program to bring tens of thousands of school districts to the constitution center every year . >> wow. [ applause ] they are calling it the constitutional ambassadors program and they go seek support and the great kids a

. >>> next, historian henry louis gates talks about reconstruction which lasted from the end of the civil war until 1877. the amendments to promote equality for african americans and the jim crow laws and other laws used to reestablish white supremacy. the national constitution center hosted this event. >>> welcome. you heard the passion of professor gates downstairs. we're going to jump into this conversation. i think you can tell it is important to bring as many school kids as possible to come see that incredible exhibit. william height stat with me and announced the school district and the constitution center are launching a program to bring tens of thousands of philly school districts to the constitution school district every year. >> wow. >> we're calling it the constitutional ambassador's program. we're going to go seek support, and those great kids are going to start these experiences in their class, come see the civil war exhibit and the constitution center and connect to classrooms around the country using our virtual constitutional exchanges for our long conversations about the

tonight a look another the post-civil war reconstruction period starting with historian henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments that aim to promote equality for african-americans. he then examines the subsequent jim crow laws that were passed in southern states. watch tonight starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> american history tv look at the civil war continues now with amy murrell taylor. it's about an hour. >> good morning, every one. i'm peter carmichael. it's my pleasure to start off this saturday morning with amy murrell taylor. she's an associate professor at the university of kentucky. she did her undergraduate training at duke university. her graduate training at uva and again as i mentioned she's at kentucky. she only goes to schools where there are basketball powese

tonight a look at the post civil war reconstruction period, starting with historian henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments passed during the time that aim to promote equality for african-americans. he then examines the subsequent jim crow laws and other segregationist measures that were passed in southern states. watch american history tv tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on cspan3. >>> a look at the civil war on american history tv continues. up next, west virginia university professor jason phillips talks about abolitionist john brown and the pikes he made for use in a unis is your ex. it was part of the gettysburg annual summer conference. this lasts about an hour. >> good afternoon abeveryone. i'm peter car michael director of the sil war institute at debts rk. also a member of the history department. it is my pleasure in afternoon to welcome jason phillips. jason phillips is the everly family professor of civil war studies at west virginia university. he started his academic career at the university of richmond then completed his masters at wake forest before go

starting with henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments past during that time that aim to promote equality for african americans. he then examines the subsequent jim crow laws and other segregationist measures that were passed in southern states. watch american history tvs tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span three. >> i look at

tonight a look at the post civil war reconstruction period, starting with historian henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments passed during the time that aim to promote equality for african-americans. he then examines the subsequent jim crow laws and other segregationist measures that were passed in southern states. watch american history tv tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on cspan3. >>> a look at the civil war on american history tv continues. up next, west virginia university professor jason phillips talks about abolitionist john brown and the pikes he made for use in a unis is your ex.

one of the things that's interesting and we had henry louis gates here back in april i believe it was but one of the things that he did know that i shared with him was south carolina never passed the one drop rule. everyone knows what the one drop rule is. one drop of black blood makes you black or or whatever the term was but south carolina west virginia passed into law and south carolina did not. no less than ben tillman's brother says you cannot do that in south carolina. families are too mixed up in certain families ostensibly that her white with an app to be reclassified to which would have been the term. >> thank you for sharing that. there's an amazing moment that i came across that i recaptured in the book that i wish i had photocopied so i had it right here been the 1890s at one of the state constitutional convention is explicitly called to remove political -- african-americans in the state that is a proposal to have a strict definition of what a person is. this point there are only six african-americans at the entire convention and one of the white delegates stand up and he

starting with historian henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments pasturing during that time that aim to promote equality for african-americans. he then examines the subsequent jim crow laws and other segregationist measures that were passed in southern states. watch american history tv wednesday darting at 8 pm eastern on c-span 3. >>> c-span has live coverage of the 2020 presidential candidates at the iowa state fair starting thursday at 1:45 pm eastern with montana governor steve bullock followed by former vice president joe biden. on friday we are live at 10 am eastern with former hud secretary julian castro and beto o'rourke and on saturday we are live at 10 am eastern with governor jay inslee, senator kamala harris, senator amy klobuchar, senator kirsten gillibrand, senator elizabeth warren, and senator cory booker. march 20 20 presidential candidates live at the iowa state fair starting thursday on c-span. watch any time online at www.c- span.org or listen live from wherever you are on the go using the f

. >>> next, historian henry louis gates talks about reconstruction which lasted from the end of the civil war until 1877. the amendments to promote equality for african americans and the jim crow laws and other

. >>> next, historian henry louis gates talks about reconstruction, which lasted from the end of the civil war until 1877. the amendments past during this time to promote equality for african-americans. and the subsequent jim crow laws and other measures used in southern states to reestablish white supremacy. the national constitution center hosted this event. >>> ladies and gentlemen. welcome upstairs to the national constitution center. >> you heard

wednesday, a look at the post civil war reconstruction period starting with historian henry louis gates. he discusses constitutional amendments passed during that time that aim to promote equality for african-americans. he then examines the subsequent joe crow laws and other segregation measures that were passed in southern states. wash american history tv wednesday starting at 8 pm eastern on cspan3. starting thursday at 1:45 p.m. with montana governor steve bullock, followed by vice president joe biden. on friday your life at 10 am eastern. on saturday we are live at 10 am eastern with governor jay inslee. watch the 2020 presidential candidate live at the iowa state fair starting thursday on polk -- cspan. listen live from wherever you are on the go, using the free cspan radio app. next, on american history tv are look at president james polk continues . this was part of a conference at the university of tennessee. that marked the completion of a 60 year project. events hosted by the east tennessee society. >> i think we are ready to begin. my name is connie i am associate advisor at