Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over Confederate heritage.

In the 1868 presidential campaign, Pollard insisted that rebellion and black servitude ... stain of treason from the Confederate legacy. Within a generation, the gray ghosts of a mythic southern ...

Contrary to the claims of today’s defenders of Confederate monuments, a review of Black newspapers going back to the 1870s conducted by my research team shows that Black journalists’ criticism ...