RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

Republicans, that we today think of as supporting small government, back in the era ... after the Civil War. Final emancipation, final meaning to the promise of the first Reconstruction, doesn ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched off remade the American nation in the late 19th century but are studied less deeply than the Civil ... after the war had no ...

According to the Historic Huntsville Foundation, many of Huntsville's builders were Black workers and entrepreneurs who found ...

In 1865, the Civil War in America ended. The northern states had defeated the southern states. The years immediately after the war were known as the Reconstruction era. The Government changed the ...

In his speech, Johnson declared the beginning of a “new reconstruction era,” referencing the period after the Civil War ended when slavery was outlawed and the country grappled with how to ...

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 ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said discussions with a Qatari delegation in Damascus Thursday included ...