Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the Union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": War's end, activism's beginning ...

Anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi’s history during the 19th century period called “Reconstruction” could not do better than to start with Jere Nash’s new book, “Reconstruction in ...

It is often said that history is a story told by the winners. It might be more accurate to say that those who tell their story as history and get others to believe it thereby make themselves the ...

“Furthermore, the lack of guidance from Vermont about Reconstruction and Black history in general makes individual teachers vulnerable to complaints from outside the schools.” Facilitators from the ...

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park is a new unit of the National Park System that includes places that illustrate nationally important stories of the Reconstruction Era in Beaufort County, ...

A nation that really believed in its ‘greatness’ — a term the president loves to use — wouldn’t be afraid to confront its worst chapters,” Zimmerman writes.

In this challenging history of America’s first age of “progressive reform,” Egerton, a professor of history at Le Moyne College, argues that the era of Reconstruction constituted the “most democratic” ...