Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

They're only half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation, final meaning to the promise of the first Reconstruction, doesn't come until the 1950s and the 1960s, in the second ...

So the second Trump term will be the last. That may not be much comfort for progressives, but there is one important point to ...

With Kamala Harris’s concession, America stands at a crossroads, deciding whether to return to the foundations of White ...

A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields. Federal ...

The essence of America has always been the battle over its essence. No one election has ever determined its complete or ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction ... director Caroline Janney talked about the decades after the 1862 Bat… McKendree University professor Lauren ...

Later, given the racist Jim Crow laws enacted after Reconstruction ... In the meantime, the Civil War Trust has listed New Market Heights among its “most endangered” sites 4.

Analysis: Unlike in 2006, Gulf states and the international community are unlikely to provide multi-billion packages to ...

Mr. Rumsfeld eventually relented, claiming only the civil administration ... The first post-war agency, the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs, was dismantled only a month after ...

After the war, Longstreet had emerged as ... Longstreet’s life (1821–1904) spanned the era of sectional conflict, Civil War, ...