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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks... How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular ...