First there was the Civil War, which ended in 1865, and then there was the postwar era of Reconstruction, which is generally said to have ended in 1877. The war concluded with the surrender of the ...

The federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, but Black people didn’t give up on the moment’s promise.

As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.

If American history is your "thing," this retelling of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction should be on your shelf. In April 1865, two huge events happened: The South surrendered ...

Those blindsided by the 2016 presidential election results -- and there were millions -- needed only to have considered one of our nation's most tumultuous eras, Reconstruction, to understand that ...

A short video on how Black politicians in the South after the Civil War provide context for voting rights battles today.

RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WARis available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

What Reconstruction teaches us about white nationalism today Historian Eric Foner on the long tradition of white nationalists clashing with Black people exercising their rights.

Many of the attacks during Reconstruction, particularly after black people began to gain political power, were even more brazen in their defiance of the law than those that came after.

This masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black ...

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive ...