In the first-ever comprehensive review of state standards on the Reconstruction era, “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,” the ...

The Reconstruction period marked the transition from slavery to freedom and citizenship for nearly four million enslaved African-Americans. It saw the enactment of the 13th, 14th and 15th ...

No wonder, then, that the era is badly misunderstood. Now, 150 years later, historians and preservationists are fighting to tell a more accurate, nuanced story, uncovering key places from the grim ...

The Reconstruction Era was from 1861 to 1898. This era was when the United States was grappling with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive advancements for Black Americans. But many American students are taught a racist, inaccurate version of this history.

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 ...

'I Saw Death Coming,' by Kidada E. Williams, re-examines the Reconstruction era and reveals how little progress was made — and how much it was resisted.

Reconstruction officially ended in 1877 when the final troops stationed in the South were withdrawn. During the Reconstruction Era slavery in the South was abolished.

It’s therefore appropriate that Section 241 and other Reconstruction-era laws are precisely those that the American legal system is turning to in response to a former president who stoked the ...

While women have historically been, especially during the Reconstruction era, advocates and underappreciated drivers of change and support, growing gender divisions structure public opinion.

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with him about his article on the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

BEAUFORT, Sc. (WTOC) - Four years ago, Reconstruction Era National Park was established to preserve and educate visitors about the role the area played during the late 1800s. Last year, the park ...