In the past year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted major pillars of America's civil rights protections ...

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Get emails on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War news, photos & more. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War is a 4 part series that will take a broad view of the Reconstruction era and ...

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, ending ...

Jamaica has secured up to $6.7 billion in international support from several financial institutions to fund reconstruction following the devastation of Hurricane Melissa. The aid was confirmed in a ...

Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1866 -- Congressional Reconstruction, 1866-1869 -- "Let us have peace," 1869-1873 -- The end of Reconstruction, 1873-1877 -- Coda, 1879 "The defeat of the Confederacy ...

The past few months have been an uneasy time for Black Americans who wonder what the future will hold with Donald Trump back in the White House. Trump won reelection, even though controversy ...

Don’t skip the chapter after the Civil War. But the notion that Reconstruction was a terrible mistake, a rape of the South by the unscrupulous and the vengeful that could only be redressed by letting ...

The past few months have been an uneasy time for Black Americans, who wonder what the future will hold with Donald Trump back in the White House. Trump won reelection, even though controversy ...