President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and Reconstruction were the same thing. Trump held a rally in Corpus Christi, Texas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in ...

The North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction is set to break ground on its main building within the next four months, with a targeted completion date in early ...

Highlighting Black political leadership provides a fuller picture of the diverse range of change-makers in the United States ...

The center aims to provide a comprehensive view of North Carolinians' lives during the Civil War and Reconstruction, encompassing diverse perspectives. While facing some skepticism, the project has ...

Foundations can play an important role in helping movements not only survive but thrive. But doing so requires a shift in mindset—and accountability to the public good. The fight for freedom and ...

At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all. Since 1865 and the end of a ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...

Get emails on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War news, photos & more. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War is a 4 part series that will take a broad view of the Reconstruction era and ...

As Black History Month begins, the Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond — through the lens of Indiana County. Denise Jennings ...

Foreword / by Phillipp Schofield -- Introduction -- Wartime Washington -- The Freedmen's Bureau in the District of Columbia -- Congressional reconstruction in the District of Columbia -- ...