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 ...

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 ...

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.

At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...