We wrote and submitted the report published below, “Our Fragile Democracy: Political Violence, White Supremacy, and ...

When Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the office of president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln in mid-April 1865, he initially incurred favor with Republican legislators in Congress, including ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

The first Reconstruction Era after the Civil War promised full and equal citizenship for black people in our society. The understatement of the century is that we are still working on fulfilling that ...

The center aims to provide a comprehensive view of North Carolinians' lives during the Civil War and Reconstruction, encompassing diverse perspectives. While facing some skepticism, the project has ...

Hari Jones had a big impact on the development of the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction. Center officials first encountered Jones 12 years ago when they were touring ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...

President Barack Obama designated as national monuments three Southern sites connected with the Civil Rights movement and post-Civil War Reconstruction. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

A new report from the nonprofit Zinn Education Project found that 90 percent of states have insufficient or non-existent lesson coverage of Reconstruction in schools. Historians warn that eclipsing ...

Close-up of a mural, entitled 'Douglass Appealing to President Lincoln' , by William Edouard Scott, 1943, which depicts Frederick Douglass as he petitions for the participation of African Americans in ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

This book’s thesis is captured in its title: the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution—which, respectively, abolished slavery, granted birthright citizenship and equal protection ...