Juneteenth, the June 19th federal holiday that commemorates the end of America’s slavocracy and celebrates freedom for ...

On June 10, he announced that he would restore the names of U.S. military bases that once honored Confederate generals — the ...

Plans for a medical school, titanium plant, food hall, sports complex and museum are underway. Here's the latest on those ...

Dylann Roof has a legitimate claim to the heritage that Nikki Haley upholds for its devotion to family and tradition, traits ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of ...

To understand a key aspect of U.S. politics that has haunted us from our founding until today, look to the Detroit riverfront ...

The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a time of change in the South; when the former Confederate states worked on reintegra ...

The International African American Museum has been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, the National ...

Usually, a civil war is one where all ... making it the deadliest war in American history. A challenging period of rebuilding the South was the Reconstruction Era, and integrating previously ...

Born in the aftermath of the bloody Civil War, Reconstruction was America's attempt ... To safeguard these rights for newly freed African-American citizens, federal troops were dispatched ...

Unfortunately, a basic understanding of the American Civil War has seemingly been lost ... similar rights as the rest of America. The Reconstruction plan was the main focus of Lincoln and ...

The Civil War produced two competing narratives ... In so doing, they helped reimagine the purpose and promise of American democracy. For a time after the war, Black Reconstructionists also ...