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Douglas Egerton, history professor at LeMoyne College, chronicled the political ascendancy of John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, and their descendants decision to dissolve the politic…

Historians talked about what life was like for Freedmen after the Civil War and the overall successes and failures of Reconstruction. They spoke about educational opportunities, land redistr…

Professor Douglas Egerton talked about black activism during the Civil War and into the early years of Reconstruction. He spoke about the series of conventions organized by activists in both…

Professor Douglas Egerton talked about his book The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era, in which he looks at politics in both northern and s…