Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

1/1/2002 - 4/30/2004

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$750,000.00 (approved)
$750,000.00 (awarded)


American Experience: Reconstruction

FAIN: GN-26197-01

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Peter S. McGhee (Project Director: February 2001 to February 2005)

Production of a two-part, four-hour documentary television series on Reconstruction (1863 to 1877) that tells the story of the aftermath of the destruction of slavery and the defeat of the Confederacy after the Civil War.