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.

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 ...

It too frequently happens that In the reconstruction of public works, those who plan and build take too limited a view of the possible developments of the future, with the result that all too soon ...

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 ...

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