ATLANTA, GEORGIA / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / The National Center for Civil and Human Rights' new gallery, "Broken Promises," is a permanent exhibit on Reconstruction-the period after the ...
Myth: The North subjected the South to military rule during Reconstruction.
Facial reconstructions of enslaved African Americans who worked at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. (Katherine Frey/The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence ...
On a misty April evening in 1865, a jubilant crowd packed the White House lawn to hear President Abraham Lincoln first speech since the end of the Civil War. They expected a stirring celebration of ...
West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In an early June op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic ...
A Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area partner site meeting held at the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic ...
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When Bella Astrofsky, who's poised to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in journalism, began digging through 19th-century newspapers, she did not expect to help inform how historians understand ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have taught Souls every year of my career as a professor of African American Studies. Still, I confess I never truly grasped the ...
A protestor raises a fist during a Moral Mondays protest led by the Rev. William Barber in North Carolina in 2016. (Pilar Timpane / Flickr) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...