Description Ordinary people don\'t experience History as it is taught by historians.
Holt challenges this form to tell the story of generations of African Ame.
The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always treat them separately? In this groundbreaking new book, renowned historian Thomas C.
They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past.
Description Ordinary people don\'t experience History as it is taught by historians