Michael Fitzgerald specializes in southern history, African American history, and the Civil War era including slavery, civil rights, and related topics. His most recent book is “Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South.” His current project is a full-scale history of the Reconstruction era in Alabama.In this podcast Edmund Santurri interviews Michael Fitzgerald following the IFC sponsored conversation between Leslie Harris and Phillip Magness about the 1619 Project (https://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?e=3756).