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Watched Skip Gates's "Reconstruction" today (Original Post) Recursion Apr 2019 OP
It's pretty astonishing tishaLA Apr 2019 #1
Totally. I thought I knew 19th century history and I was blown away Recursion Apr 2019 #2

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
1. It's pretty astonishing
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 07:01 PM
Apr 2019

I feel like I have a pretty deep knowledge of American and African American history, but I learned new things virtually every minute of that series. It's one of those series you wish had gone even longer.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
2. Totally. I thought I knew 19th century history and I was blown away
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 07:08 PM
Apr 2019

I was both shocked and embarrassed to learn how many of the white supremacist lies that they spread I had bought into without noticing or thinking about it.

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