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Historian Manisha Sinha looked at the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War and argued that the period did not end in 1877, but rather continued through 1920 and the ratification of the 19t…

Scott Casper and Dennis Pogue conducted this tour of Mount Vernon on March 25, 2008. Mr. Casper discussed the lives of blacks on the estate and Sarah Johnson. Scott Casper is the author of S…

Scott Casper talked about his book Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine (Hill and Wang, January 2008). The book reconstructs the story of a community of …