The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched off remade the American nation in the late 19th century but are studied less deeply than the Civil War that preceded them and ...

They're only half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation ... be full partners in the story of American life. The promise is there in the first Reconstruction, but it is aborted.

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

The most punishing conflict ever fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War ... power in the post-war era that saw tremendous and far-reaching changes. Reconstruction was a ...