When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada E.

As students in Chatham County enter another year of the educational journey, I found it beneficial to pause and honor local Blacks who made significant contributions to our city during the 12 years of ...

A brief expose on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution! The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were meant to fix the social and political ...

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 ...

Mississippi's secession from the Union in 1861 was driven by the desire to protect slavery. A new state constitution in 1868 aimed to create a multi-racial democracy during Reconstruction. By 1876, ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and ...

In this challenging history of America’s first age of “progressive reform,” Egerton, a professor of history at Le Moyne College, argues that the era of Reconstruction constituted the “most democratic” ...

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 ...

Philadelphia is a city known for its impact on history. However, even after the ink dried on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, residents worked to continue to support the ideals of ...

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...