They're only half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation ... be full partners in the story of American life. The promise is there in the first Reconstruction, but it is aborted.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln endowed the Civil War with sacred meaning, creating an American Scripture and articulating an American civil religion that still suffuses the idea of the ...

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 War that preceded them and ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

A typical way of telling the history of the United States is to frame it as involving a series of key periods: Colonial ...

Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation ... The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction ... South’s involvement in the Civil War was about states’ rights ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Vorenberg has already begun on his next work: a book about a military prison “that existed during the American Civil War and Reconstruction” and “incarcerated more than 2,000 people over a period of ...

Renowned documentarian Ken Burns spoke about the nearly 10-year process of creating his latest film, "The American Revolution." ...