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Free history lecture at GCC: 'Recalling Reconstruction: The Ugly Story of a Splendid Failure'

By Billie Owens
Event Date and Time
2015-12-02T19:00:00 - 2015-12-02T20:00:00

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, 7 p.m. / Batavia Campus / T102

•    In "Recalling Reconstruction: The Ugly Story of a Splendid Failure," Derek Maxfield, GCC associate professor of History, will discuss the end of the Civil War and how President Lincoln counseled his generals not to gloat in victory and to avoid bitterness and animosity. "Let 'em up easy," he said. Lincoln did not live to oversee the Reconstruction, which wound up taking a dark turn.

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