In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published an influential book titled Black Reconstruction in America. This excerpt, from a chapter titled “The Propaganda of History,” questions the ways in which Reconstruction was being studied and taught at the time. This is Handout 15.4 (p. 273) in The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy. The following is an excerpt from a chapter titled “The Propaganda of History” in W. E. B. Du Bois’s influential 1935 book Black Reconstruction in America.
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