Historians review some myths and misconceptions about the Reconstruction era. David Blight ... still left in the South by 1875 and '76 at the end, were tiny. And most of them were garrisoned ...

Kimathi Nelson described Donald Trump’s 2024 election as the official end to America’s second Reconstruction. He argued that the first Reconstruction (1866–1877) was a period of expanding ...

But there was a fierce need or desire among white Northerners at the end of the Civil ... for at least a short period of time, the radical Republican vision of Reconstruction did manage enough ...

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it ... a professor of American history at Stanford University, begins at the end of the Civil War, with the assassination of Abraham ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

Kimathi Nelson described Donald Trump’s 2024 election as the official end to America’s second Reconstruction. He argued that the first Reconstruction (1866–1877) was a period of expanding ...

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.