Explore America’s Reconstruction Era through its National Parks & Historic Sites

Our friends from James A. Garfield National Historic Site discuss the Reconstruction Era National Historical Network and how it preserves and interprets this critically important era in our nation’s history.

This talk is part of a monthly series on the leaders and legacies of the Civil War that is hosted by the James A. Garfield National Historic Site and Mentor Public Library. The series continues on Sept. 13 with a look at a special memorial that was erected after President Garfield was assassinated.

Several talks in this series can be viewed online in their entirety, including:

• Antietam: The Deadliest Day in US History
• Juneteenth: The Significance of June 19
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Gettysburg
• The Fourteenth Amendment
• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Life & Legacy of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain