Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

Now, some African Americans did learn to read and write ... New Orleans has a few desegregated schools for a brief time during Reconstruction, but nobody makes it work in the rural parishes.

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

employed various forms of resistance and survival strategies to navigate one of the most tumultuous periods in American history – the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The essays included shed new ...

Miller, Paul D. 2013. A bibliographic essay on the Allied occupation and reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955. Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 24, Issue. 4, p ...

American efforts to federalize the Iraqi political system ended up politicizing reconstruction. Huge splits opened between Iraq's regional and national governments. Anti-corruption efforts were ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.