Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

Reconstruction of the South ... to the nation's first military draft triggers a riot, the largest in American history, as poor white Northerners protest being forced to fight to end slavery.

The past few months have been an uneasy time for Black Americans, who wonder what the future will hold with Donald Trump back ...

Los Angeles is the latest of a long list of victims of worsening wildfires. But history suggests we will forget the risks and ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...

and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 – 1920 [rebroadcast – ...

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...

American constitutional lawyers and legal ... national power to protect civil and political rights during and after Reconstruction.” —Michael Les Benedict, Emeritus Professor of History, The Ohio ...

And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.

I like to think of Notre Dame newly reborn out of its own charred ruins as a hopeful metaphor for the coming years of U.S. political and cultural history ... to raze American institutions (for ...