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<p>Peniel Joseph's book looks to the past struggles to define and achieve freedom and equality to ask what America's Third Reconstruction – begun with Obama's election and attacked since– must do to survive and advance. </p>

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The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.

In ‘The Third Reconstruction,’ Peniel E. Joseph examines key points in U.S. history in which Black empowerment was met with white opposition.

NPR’s Michel Martin welcomed history professor Peniel E. Joseph to PBS’s Amanpour and Company to discuss his latest book where he compares the election of Barack Obama to the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments and to Civil Rights Movement and the election of Donald Trump to the backlash to those movements.

Think Texas newsletter includes links to 17 Texas history stories.

The 10 best books of September abound with life lessons, forgiveness, truth-telling, and gripping moral questions.

Cormac McCarthy, Peniel Joseph, Elizabeth McCracken, Wendi Aarons, Rubén Degollado, George Saunders and more authors releasing books in fall 2022.

Superlative Texas actor Eugene Lee plays author August Wilson at Texas State in San Marcos.

While compellingly readable, Peniel E. Joseph’s “The Third Reconstruction” overstates the impact of the recent reckoning over racial justice.