Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

And it has a great deal to do with why, for at least a short period of time, the radical Republican vision of Reconstruction did manage enough support to sustain it, at least through the ...

The United States grew from a peripheral nation to a world power in a period that high-school history classes often gloss over. The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched ...

If this relentless assault on Black Americans goes unchecked, what safeguards do we have to prevent history from repeating ...

University of Houston students are using Beyoncé’s ‘16 Carriages’ to study Black history and the Reconstruction Era in an African American Studies course. Explore how the ballad helps ...

“In the limited reconstruction period that we had, we did not have the luxury of figuring out ways to revitalize the city,” said a section head in the city government. “We had our hands ...

It aims to provide a fresh, research-driven understanding of the Civil War era by exploring its full impact on the state — from Antebellum through Reconstruction. By focusing on the lived ...