In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence and the Reconstruction era, the period of political revolution directly ...

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 ...

The second novel following Nathan Harris' bestselling "The Sweetness of Water," the story follows siblings emancipated from ...

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 ...

A program on the revolutionary Reconstruction-era New Orleans leader Oscar James Dunn, the first Black lieutenant governor in the United States, will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. July 29 on Zoom.

BEAUFORT, S.C. — The National Park Service on Monday announced the first eight community sites to be included in the newly established Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, and all of them are ...

The Civil War dominates a lot of people’s conceptions of South Carolina history. But a new tour in Columbia highlights what happened after: the Reconstruction era and the unprecedented advances it ...

An organization that founded the nation’s first memorial to lynching victims announced Tuesday that it has documented thousands of additional killings of black people during the era of Reconstruction.

The first Reconstruction Era after the Civil War promised full and equal citizenship for black people in our society. The understatement of the century is that we are still working on fulfilling that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have been followed by a well-crafted campaign to misrepresent the vocabulary and ...