Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction. Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming ...

Social equality is thrown up as an argument against Reconstruction ... And of course the black codes, which were established during the summer of 1865 and into the fall of 1866 -- allowed to ...

Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller said the 47th president’s administration is considering suspending habeas corpus to address immigration, alarming legal experts and Black historians who warn ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

Trump’s anti-DEI push isn’t the first time efforts to diversify policing have faced a backlash. Black officers hired in the South during Reconstruction lost their jobs in the late 1800s when the ...