One UC Davis professor is on a mission to create a new dialogue about an oft-ignored period of U.S. history As the National Park Service turns 100 in August, one UC Davis professor is on a mission to ...

“Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region” details the reassessment of the Reconstruction era. The book highlights the creation of the Reconstruction ...

The Black History Commission of Arkansas is preparing to hold an event focusing on officials during Reconstruction.

A Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area partner site meeting held at the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic ...

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...

In May 1870, John W. Stephens, a white state senator closely allied with black voters, was lured into the lumber room of the stately courthouse in Caswell County, N.C. Inside, members of the local Ku ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum has been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, the National Parks Service announced Wednesday. The national ...

Kevin McGruder is an associate professor of History at Antioch College. The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have been ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks... How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular ...

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s gave African Americans hope with the impending Emancipation Proclamation and whispers of the upcoming end of slavery. But despite its defeat, the Confederate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shauna Sias, 48, has lived in Opelousas, Louisiana, almost her entire life. And thanks to her father, a civil rights advocate who ...

There is a curious passage in W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1903 masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, that tries to capture the zeitgeist of those closing decades of the 19th century that ended Reconstruction and ...