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 ...

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

If any leader were to take a vote to put them in office for some temporary period of time to be a total transfer of power ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction ... who interviewed dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war t… Historians Frances Clarke and Rebecca ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

According to the museum, this new addition to the permanent gallery will explore major events in Lowcountry history, from the Reconstruction era immediately after the Civil War up to through the ...

symbolic of violence in South Carolina after the Civil War. “Our exhibits are basically centered around the collection pieces that we have. So one of the key pieces in the exhibit is a pew that ...