{"id":4108,"date":"2015-10-10T21:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T01:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/reconstruction-what-really-happened-after-the-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:44:54","slug":"reconstruction-what-really-happened-after-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/reconstruction-what-really-happened-after-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstruction: What really happened after the Civil War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/academics\/Documents\/highnoonfall2015.pdf\">Fall 2015 High Noon Schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19491\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/courtney-tollison.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19491\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19491 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/courtney-tollison.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Courtney Tollison\" width=\"254\" height=\"244\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 254px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 254\/244;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Dr. Courtney Tollison<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many historians believe there is no more complex and misunderstood time in history than Reconstruction, the tumultuous period that followed the end of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Furman University history professor Courtney Tollison will take an in-depth look at that controversial era in American history when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 21 at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, \u201cRevisiting Reconstruction: South Carolina and the Sesquicentennial,\u201d is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tollison will discuss how scholars have evolved in their interpretations of this period, and how South Carolina is on the forefront of national efforts to revisit Reconstruction during the 150th commemoration of the era after the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Tollison\u2019s talk is the fourth\u00a0of seven consecutive lectures presented by Furman professors during the fall. All lectures are free and begin at noon on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-3107 or <a href=\"mailto:vince.moore@furman.edu\">vince.moore@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many historians believe there is no more complex and misunderstood time in history than Reconstruction, the tumultuous period that followed the end of the Civil War.\u00a0Furman history professor Courtney Tollison will take an in-depth look at that controversial era in American history when she speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 21 at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.\u00a0The lecture, \u201cRevisiting Reconstruction: South Carolina and the Sesquicentennial,\u201d is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}