In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence and the Reconstruction era, the period of political revolution directly ...

During the Reconstruction era, the U.S. abolished slavery and guaranteed Black men the right to vote. But it was marred by tragedy and political infighting—and ended with a disastrous backlash.

Mississippi's secession from the Union in 1861 was driven by the desire to protect slavery. A new state constitution in 1868 aimed to create a multi-racial democracy during Reconstruction. By 1876, ...

Unity and healing - two words that have been thrown around a lot lately. President-elect Biden built his campaign around those words. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JOE BIDEN: Now it's time to turn ...

Over 800 corten-steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place, on display at the National Memorial For Peace And ...

In his new book, Peniel Joseph writes that there have been three periods of Reconstruction in American history. First, the post-Civil War period brought the end of slavery and the fight for Black ...

The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in multiracial democracy ...

The WNET Group, Louisiana Public Broadcasting and Latino Public Broadcasting are among recipients of grants announced Tuesday by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The public TV organizations, ...

Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry of R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia, 1985. (Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University, about what people mean when they talk about unity and healing during a moment of national division. Unity and ...