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 ...

And it has a great deal to do with why, for at least a short period of time, the radical Republican vision of Reconstruction did manage enough support to sustain it, at least through the ...

The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is set to reopen to visitors beginning Dec. 8, more than five years after an accidental ...

The National Park Service in 2019 created the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network to connect sites across the country that provide education, interpretation and research related to the ...

Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, ...

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“In the limited reconstruction period that we had, we did not have the luxury of figuring out ways to revitalize the city,” said a section head in the city government. “We had our hands ...

ADAMS RUN — The Ernest F. Hollings ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge is one of seven sites across the country being added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. The network ...

In the century and a half it has been in the courtyard at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, it has seen a lot of change. Yet, the ...