Born in the aftermath of the bloody Civil War, Reconstruction was America's attempt to make good on its founding promise of civil and political equality. The Reconstruction years of 1865 to 1877 ...

I write frequently about the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, not to make predictions or analogies but to show how a previous generation of Americans grappled with their own set of ...

The war in Ukraine has internally displaced over 8 million Ukrainians, forced more than 5 million Ukrainians to leave the country and cost the lives of over 14,000 civilians. Since Russia’s invasion ...

Hari Jones had a big impact on the development of the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction. Center officials first encountered Jones 12 years ago when they were ...

In her powerful and deeply moving history of the Reconstruction era, Williams, an associate professor of history at Wayne State University, upends the narrative of the post-Civil War era as a ...

But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment. Slavery, at least in the United States, would be abolished forever. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ...

1873 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The Reconstruction period that followed America's Civil War was one of the worst, most violent eras in American history. During that time, thousands of ...