In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

He argued that the court should look into the ability of Americans to file federal civil rights claims at all, arguing that Section 1983 “originated as a narrow, Reconstruction era statute ...

Object Details Illustrated by George Edward Perine, American, 1837 - 1885 Subject of Robert Brown Elliott, American, 1842 - 1884 Illustrated by Thomas Nast, American, 1840 - 1902 Description A page ...

That same year, the film “Birth of a Nation” celebrated the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, which marked its comeback with a cross burning on top of Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving night in 1915.

That same year, the film “Birth of a Nation” celebrated the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, which marked its comeback with a cross burning on top of Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving night in 1915.