Scenarios about 'reconstruction'
The period following the American Civil War (1865-1877) when the federal government worked to reintegrate the defeated Confederate states into the Union and establish new social, political, and economic relationships with formerly enslaved people. Reconstruction involved constitutional amendments granting citizenship and voting rights to African Americans, deployment of federal troops in southern states, and contentious debates over the extent of federal authority versus states' rights in rebuilding the nation.
What If Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Assassinated?
Exploring the alternate timeline where President Abraham Lincoln survived John Wilkes Booth's assassination attempt and completed his second term, potentially transforming the course of Reconstruction and race relations in America.
What If Education Was Never Segregated?
Exploring the alternate timeline where racial segregation never took hold in American education, potentially reshaping the nation's social, economic, and political landscape from the post-Civil War era onward.
What If Historically Black Colleges and Universities Were Never Needed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where racial segregation in American higher education never took hold, eliminating the need for separate Black colleges and universities and profoundly reshaping American education, society, and racial progress.
What If Reconstruction Was More Successful?
Exploring the alternate timeline where post-Civil War Reconstruction in the United States achieved its goals of racial equality, lasting political transformation, and economic integration of formerly enslaved people.
What If Slavery Was Abolished Earlier in The United States?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States abolished slavery decades before the Civil War, fundamentally altering the nation's development, politics, and social fabric.
What If The American Civil War Never Happened?
Exploring an alternate timeline where the United States resolved its sectional conflicts without descending into civil war, and how this would have transformed American society, slavery, and global politics.