Jan. 6 and the long shadow of Civil War and Reconstruction era political violence

Somewhat later, as the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United ...
Texas Public Radio

A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress

If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in ...
PBS

Civil Rights During Reconstruction

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 Hill

It’s time for a third Reconstruction

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 Fayetteville Observer

Juneteenth lecture, as Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction center debuts new images

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 ...
New Republic

A Third Reconstruction, or a Second Civil War?

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 ...
The Fayetteville Observer

Fayetteville's Civil War and Reconstruction project continues to defy gravity | Opinion

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Three Civil Rights Sites Become National Monuments

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, ...
insider.si.edu

The second founding how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution Eric Foner

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 ...
Forbes

The U.S. Needs To Complete Its Reconstruction Efforts. Here’s How.

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 ...
NPR

What Reconstruction Teaches Us About Today's Politics

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 ...
PBS

Civil Rights During Reconstruction

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 ...