The Museum of the Reconstruction Era tells the story of a misunderstood time period through the life of President Woodrow ...

A Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area partner site meeting held at the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic ...

“Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region” details the reassessment of the Reconstruction era. The book highlights the creation of the Reconstruction ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks... How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular ...

The National Park Service announced the addition of four sites — including the Wilson Bruce Evans Home in Oberlin — to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects ...

One UC Davis professor is on a mission to create a new dialogue about an oft-ignored period of U.S. history As the National Park Service turns 100 in August, one UC Davis professor is on a mission to ...

COLUMBIA — University of South Carolina students may know little to nothing about the time the campus became majority Black. They may never have heard of the first Black student to enroll at the ...

Explore America’s Reconstruction Era – the period after the Civil War – through the national parks with a free lecture at noon Aug. 9 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. The ...

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...

Journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President... Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved ...

The year was 1871, and Fisk University was struggling. Fisk was just a few years old then - one of the institutions founded in the South to educate Black people after the Civil War. The school's choir ...