Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

The past few months have been an uneasy time for Black Americans, who wonder what the future will hold with Donald Trump back ...

And it has a great deal to do with why, for at least a short period of time, the radical Republican vision of Reconstruction did manage enough support to sustain it, at least through the ...

“In the limited reconstruction period that we had, we did not have the luxury of figuring out ways to revitalize the city,” said a section head in the city government. “We had our hands ...

The northern states had defeated the southern states. The years immediately after the war were known as the Reconstruction era. The Government changed the Constitution, so slavery was abolished ...