Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called ...

Carr's commission dates to the same year of the U.S. Congress' Compromise of 1877, which effectively ended post-Civil War Reconstruction. I argue that this was not a coincidence but that Carr ...

This truly brief period ended after the controversial election of President Rutherford Hayes via the Compromise of 1877, when the northern troops were removed from the South. At this point ...

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 ...