Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936 ...

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 ...

Of course, like in all eras of American political history ... today think of as supporting small government, back in the era of Reconstruction were the party that was pioneering in the creation ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Most modern attacks, including the deadly white supremacist attack on Buffalo that occurred two years ago this week, repeat Reconstruction-era themes ... portion of the American people avow ...

University of Houston students are using Beyoncé’s ‘16 Carriages’ to study Black history and the Reconstruction Era in an African American Studies course. Explore how the ballad helps ...

To Make Men Free (2014) examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. She is currently working on an intellectual history of American ...