“To African Americans, freedom at the end of the Civil War wasn ... the very thick of Reconstruction. “I Saw Death Coming” bears witness to a dark malignancy in American history, one ...

The Civil War produced two competing narratives ... In so doing, they helped reimagine the purpose and promise of American democracy. For a time after the war, Black Reconstructionists also ...

Born in the aftermath of the bloody Civil War, Reconstruction was America's attempt ... To safeguard these rights for newly freed African-American citizens, federal troops were dispatched ...

Jones spoke twice in Fayetteville, the first time in 2012 on the “African American Role in the Civil War and Reconstruction.” He returned in 2018 to speak for Juneteenth. He was scheduled to ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period ... racist backlash against progress,” Foner points out. “Reconstruction tells us about the ideals that Americans claim to follow, the ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a time of change in the South; when the former Confederate states worked on reintegra ...

after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment. Slavery, at least in the United States, would be abolished forever. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil ...