We must refuse the shame that seeks to make us forget what we glimpsed, however briefly, in the streets in 2020, writes ...

Looking at the Post Reconstruction of the mid 1800’s , we see a disturbing pattern of reactionary forces that drastically pushed Black Americans into an era of terror, segregation, and severe ...

Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction. Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming ...

Versions of the era like the early motion ... Was there some corruption during Reconstruction? Yes, there was. And were some of the former slaves and other black legislators involved?

The United States grew from a peripheral nation to a world power in a period that high ... While Reconstruction attempted to expand individual rights to black Southerners, Native Americans were ...

Reading it amidst our era ... backlash against “Black Lives Matter” and police reform, it is difficult to avoid the force of Du Bois’ insight: Like with the demise of Reconstruction ...