Other popular depictions that are similar to Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind are The Free State of Jones and Glory. These two films share the same concept about Reconstruction and about civil rights. There are two reasons that I believe why historians relooked at Reconstruction. The first one is that apparently according to another historian, the actions of the Reconstruction government were overlooked at and exaggerated. This caused the historians to examine it again and found out everything was not as bad as it was depicted out to be. The second reason is that because people who were fighting for civil rights realized Reconstruction had flaws and was not truly fair to people, which historians would want to see if that is true or
