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The History Channel‘s Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, a collaboration pinch Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Malcolm Gladwell‘s Pushkin Industries, is debuting connected Thursday connected Audible, pinch plans for merchandise connected each podcast platforms from June 18 to July 16.
Gladwell hosts nan podcast series, and Barack Obama provides commentary, arsenic it examines nan analyzable post-Civil War era successful nan United States and its analyzable legacy.
Obama said successful a statement, “The Reconstruction Era was a little but pivotal and turbulent section successful our nation’s history – 1 that is often overlooked, moreover though its consequences are still felt today. In confronting this play honestly, I dream audiences tin rediscover an basal portion of our past and retrieve that moreover successful moments of heavy conflict and contradiction, persistence and perseverance stay powerful sources of hope.”
Also featured successful nan podcast bid are s Jelani Cobb, Wyatt Cenac, David Blight, Kai Wright, Kellie CarterJackson, Ashley C. Ford, Manisha Sinha, Kidada Williams and Eric Foner.
The task is portion of nan History Channel’s History Honors 250 campaign, marking nan semiquincentennial of nan United States.
