A new biography of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...
Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution1d
‘Red Clay’ traces the lives of slave and slaveholder in Reconstruction-era Alabama
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 ...
WTXL ABC 272h
Tallahassee Celebrates Black History Month with a new exhibit
The city of Tallahassee is celebrating Black history and culture. A new exhibit is open at the John G. Riley Center/Museum.
The Rogersville Review3d
Jim Lewis presents Civil War lecture 'The Last Battle of Murfreesboro'
KINGSPORT − The Tri Cities Civil War Round Table is hosting a presentation relating to the American Civil War and ...
Live 5 News27d
African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... most of the former slave’s work after the ...
Hosted on MSN27d
African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has ... s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would ...