RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Republicans, that we today think of as supporting small government, back in the era ... after the Civil War. Final emancipation, final meaning to the promise of the first Reconstruction, doesn ...

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

In 1865, the Civil War in America ended. The northern states had defeated the southern states. The years immediately after the war were known as the Reconstruction era. The Government changed the ...

According to the Historic Huntsville Foundation, many of Huntsville's builders were Black workers and entrepreneurs who found ...

Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called Reconstruction. This truly brief period ended af ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

"African Americans in Tallahassee: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era" is the theme of the multifaceted ... moved to Tallahassee shortly after its founding in 1824, and Tallahassee-born Margaret ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Two locations in Mobile are now recognized for their role in the Reconstruction Era, a period of U.S. history after the Civil War. The National Park Service recognizes more ...