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FALL CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 2 — Registration & drop/add available through September 15

A Tragic Era: The Story Of Reconstruction (G357)

G – History

Dover (Wyoming Church) | September 2, 2025-November 11, 2025

Tuesday: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

This is a hybrid course. One section meets on site at the location listed; and one section meets online only.

At the close of the Civil War in 1865, the U.S. government embarked on a policy of “reconstructing” the union of the states while at the same time wrestling with the enormous task of ensuring a “new birth of freedom” for four million formerly enslaved people. The next several years saw a serious effort to create, for the first time in our history, a biracial democracy; but it ended in the abandonment and betrayal of African-Americans. This class looks back at this crucial and defining era.

This offering meets for a total of 11 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Daniel Pritchett

PRITCHETT, DANIEL — M.A., history, University of Delaware; B.S., education, Concord College; taught history in the Capital School District for 34 years and at Delaware State University for seven years. (CA308, G357)

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