Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

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Season 1
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 9, 2019
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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91

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Apr 12, 2019
    100
    A remarkable tour of a terrible part of our history that makes the case--a compelling one--that this history isn’t entirely in the past at all.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Aramide Tinubu
    Apr 9, 2019
    83
    Despite a somewhat tedious pace, much of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War is revelatory.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Apr 9, 2019
    90
    Gates’s series is a great service, especially in its first two hours. ... The series’s second two hours — which cover subjects like the Jim Crow system, the Ku Klux Klan, W.E.B. DuBois, the creation of the N.A.A.C.P. and the ascendance of black popular culture — are engrossing but less urgent.
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