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 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Explore America’s Reconstruction Era – the period after the Civil War – through the national parks with a free lecture at noon Aug. 9 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. The ...

National Center for Civil and Human Rights Unveils Broken Promises Gallery “Guided” by Ida B. Wells The gallery presents Black progress during the Reconstruction Era, when nearly four million newly ...

Alabama Shakespeare Festival premieres 'ReCON$truXion,' a play exploring the Reconstruction era through the eyes of John Roy ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

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 ...

The year was 1871, and Fisk University was struggling. Fisk was just a few years old then - one of the institutions founded in the South to educate Black people after the Civil War. The school's choir ...

The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a time of change in the South; when the former Confederate states worked on reintegrating into the Union, Black slaves ...