March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...

The lessons that I learned growing up about the power of storytelling to change politics, legislation and the ways entire communities related to each other, reverberate now more than ever. I cling to ...

The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating...and terrifying. African Americans had played a crucial role in saving the Union and now, as the country grappled with the terms and ...

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, HOST: We turn now to a fresh look at a recent American history. Our next guest is offering a new interpretation of the years between Barack Obama’s election in 2008 and last year’s ...

America’s third Reconstruction The split screen interpretations of Jan. 6′s meaning for American democracy by Republican and Democratic Party officials reflect debates, conflicts, and divisions that ...

Moral language is an important means of re-framing policy,Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP of the NAACP Legislative Political Action Committee, argued in a ...

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Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1866 -- Congressional Reconstruction, 1866-1869 -- "Let us have peace," 1869-1873 -- The end of Reconstruction, 1873-1877 -- Coda, 1879 "The defeat of the Confederacy ...

The 50 years following the American Civil War often come to us as a blur of disconnected images from old Westerns and "Gone With the Wind," a hiatus between the drama of the Civil War and World War I.

Moving day -- The Great White Jail -- The Porch -- "Like a ship at sea" -- The inspection -- The eviction -- The slow murder -- Wanted : home for President -- "The people want a new building" -- The ...

The past few months have been an uneasy time for Black Americans who wonder what the future will hold with Donald Trump back in the White House. Trump won reelection, even though controversy ...