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We’ve Been Here Before

Lessons for Surviving in an Age of White Backlash

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By Kellie Carter Jackson

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Apr 6, 2027
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Seal Press
ISBN-13
9781541608795

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A historian’s guide to understanding Reconstruction and the lessons it offers for navigating our own fraught political moment

In the wake of a shocking presidential election, historian Kellie Carter Jackson came to a simple but powerful realization: We have stood at a similar crossroads before, in the years following the Civil War, the era of Reconstruction. Would democracy extend to all Americans? Or would white supremacy prevail? 

In We’ve Been Here Before, Carter Jackson skillfully transforms history into a political guidebook. Throughout Reconstruction, every political crisis—from the pardon of Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the rise of the KKK—sparked resistance. From this tumultuous history, there are lessons to be learned: the importance of being a good neighbor, the power of electoral politics, and how to survive in a country that meets progress with violence and bigotry.

Striking and sobering, We’ve Been Here Before is a road map for enduring our current political storm.

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  • Nonfiction
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  • History United States Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Kellie Carter Jackson is the Michael and Denise Kellen ’68 Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of the award-winning book We Refuse and is the cohost of the Radiotopia podcast This Day. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and three children.  

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Kellie Carter Jackson

About the Author

Kellie Carter Jackson is the Michael and Denise Kellen ’68 Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of the award-winning book We Refuse and is the cohost of the Radiotopia podcast This Day. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and three children.  

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