The Legacy of the Reconstruction Era’s Black Political Leaders

Highlighting Black political leadership provides a fuller picture of the diverse range of change-makers in the United States ...

Confused Trump Says the Civil War and Reconstruction Were the Same Thing: ‘A Fancy Way of Saying the Civil War’

President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area joins national network to highlight stories from the Reconstruction Era

A Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area partner site meeting held at the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic ...
The Clarion-Ledger

Illustrated history of Reconstruction spotlights the era’s transformation

“Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region” details the reassessment of the Reconstruction era. The book highlights the creation of the Reconstruction ...
ucdavis.edu

Mapping the Reconstruction Era

One UC Davis professor is on a mission to create a new dialogue about an oft-ignored period of U.S. history As the National Park Service turns 100 in August, one UC Davis professor is on a mission to ...
The Morning Journal

Wilson Bruce Evans Home in Oberlin listed on Reconstruction Era National Historical Network

The National Park Service announced the addition of four sites — including the Wilson Bruce Evans Home in Oberlin — to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects ...
The News-Herald

Mentor Public Library hosts talk on Reconstruction Era National Historical Network

Explore America’s Reconstruction Era – the period after the Civil War – through the national parks with a free lecture at noon Aug. 9 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. The ...
WVXU

How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular music

The year was 1871, and Fisk University was struggling. Fisk was just a few years old then - one of the institutions founded in the South to educate Black people after the Civil War. The school's choir ...
Wall Street Journal

Two Books on a Reconstruction-Era Murder and Its Aftermath

In May 1870, John W. Stephens, a white state senator closely allied with black voters, was lured into the lumber room of the stately courthouse in Caswell County, N.C. Inside, members of the local Ku ...