March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...

President Donald Trump has destabilized this arrangement more than any president in recent memory. He has imposed National ...

A woman leading a dog cart with vegetables, a man and a woman towing a barge along a canal in the Dutch countryside, with windmills in the background, Netherlands, engraving from The Graphic, 1879.

WASHINGTON during reconstruction was a reflection of the country, as is always likely to be the case when there is a great question pending upon which public attention is fixed. Doubtless a complexity ...

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation torn ...

Kevin McGruder is an associate professor of History at Antioch College. The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have been ...

Roosevelt is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and the author of The Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story. Does the Constitution ...

THE Civil War of 1861-65 (the term is used here for convenience, though it lacks perfect accuracy) was conducted in substantial or reasonable accordance with the settled rules of war ; and at its ...