Lawyers in the second murder trial of Karen Read are set to give their closing arguments after weeks of testimony. The highly divisive case has hinged on the prosecution's theory ...

Trump sent National Guard troops to California amid days of protesting federal immigration raids. Here's what's usual, and ...

He was assassinated in 1876, possibly for his stances on education and taxation in Reconstruction-era South Carolina, and possibly just because he was a black Republican. Democrats and former ...

We’re not going to be silenced,” Veasey said. “We’re not going to be erased, and we’re not going to let them drag us back ...

with its roots in the Reconstruction Era. “In the waning years of the Civil War (1861–1865) and immediately afterward, communities in the North and South, Black and White, decorated soldiers ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

Reading it amidst our era ... backlash against “Black Lives Matter” and police reform, it is difficult to avoid the force of Du Bois’ insight: Like with the demise of Reconstruction ...

If popular culture helps Americans understand history, there’s good news and bad news for the period known as Reconstruction. The good news: The era’s story is told in two of the biggest ...

She is the author of The Army Under Fire: Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era ... Black equality in the 19th-century United States did not bend the power of the purse to fund his radical ...

Glenn Youngkin (R) joined House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) and leaders of both parties to commemorate 100 Black men who served in the General Assembly in the Reconstruction era. In an ...

The National Park Service in 2019 created the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network ... from enslavement to freedom and how the Black community especially responded,” Kate Sutter ...