Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

With Kamala Harris’s concession, America stands at a crossroads, deciding whether to return to the foundations of White ...

The nation is perhaps at its most polarizing and divided point since the American Civil War ... go down in history as the ...

complicating the already strenuous process of the Reconstruction era. Lincoln’s vision of a united nation and his plans for ...

The Reconstruction era was one of the most consequential chapters ... In this light, it’s refreshing that, in their new book, ...

St. John’s AME Church in Norfolk, Virginia was as a mission for free and enslaved Black Americans. During Reconstruction it was a center of Black community life in the Norfolk area. It remains an ...

This election is a chance to unite. Keeping people apart has always been the oxygen that hate needs to survive.

The unusual stability of our constitutional system means we don’t think of our political orders in those terms — that’s for ...

Cumberland Middle School students have researched the story of John Robinson and made the case for a historical marker.

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the American Civil War ... particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, ...

Archaeologists first made the grim discovery in 2022 and have been studying the remains to understand why she and others were ...