Renegades resisting Reconstruction and crafting Redemption and Lost Cause ideology created a dichotomy defining white as ...

Actually, many historians now say Reconstruction started well before the end of the Civil War — as early as 1861 — and ended around the turn of the 20th century. Why 1861?

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park is a new unit of the National Park System that includes places that illustrate nationally important stories of the Reconstruction Era in Beaufort County ...

How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular music A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, ... RASCOE: So let's start with the idea behind this issue.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 has become a critical tool in conservatives’ fight to end racial considerations in ... a law professor at American University and an expert in Reconstruction-era ...

'I Saw Death Coming,' by Kidada E. Williams, re-examines the Reconstruction era and reveals how little progress was made — and how much it was resisted.

Felix is the only remaining child of Plessant and Elmira, a valet and cook enslaved at Road’s End Plantation on the outskirts of the fictional town of Red Clay, Alabama.

One of the lesser-known impacts of Philadelphians on their fellow Americans came during the Reconstruction period of this country. The era itself remains a hushed and, at times, controversial ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with him about his article on the Fisk Jubilee Singers.