They're only half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation ... be full partners in the story of American life. The promise is there in the first Reconstruction, but it is aborted.

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched off remade the American nation in the late 19th century but are studied less deeply than the Civil War that preceded them and ...

A typical way of telling the history of the United States is to frame it as involving a series of key periods: Colonial ...

Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation ... The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the ...

Topics covered may include the antislavery movement, black activism, secession, the war and reasons for U.S. victory, and the changes in American society and politics during Reconstruction.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction ... South’s involvement in the Civil War was about states’ rights ...

Renowned documentarian Ken Burns spoke about the nearly 10-year process of creating his latest film, "The American Revolution." ...