Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary ...

Black History Month: We carry the imprints of people and places “The American Civil War ended ... identify key places in the story of Reconstruction, an era almost entirely absent from the ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music ... centered around the unfinished legacy of the Reconstruction Era. Vann Newkirk is a senior editor at the magazine ...

Looming over this data is the ubiquitous gender gap in American politics. While women have historically been, especially during the Reconstruction era, advocates and underappreciated drivers of ...

According to Bouie, the “core ideological struggle” of the Reconstruction era raised many important questions about who America is for and who should be considered an American. For the first ...

1873 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The Reconstruction period that followed America's Civil War was one of the worst, most violent eras in American history. During that time, thousands of ...

Why do we celebrate Memorial Day? Memorial Day is a day to honor those who have died while in military service for the United States. The holiday is not to be confused with Vetera ...

They portray the era as a contested epic ... the gains historians have made since the revival of Black Reconstruction. The health of American democracy continues to rest upon whether we believe ...

As states around the country have been adopting policies and passing laws restricting how teachers can discuss race and racism in the classroom, the School District of Philadelphia is continuing ...

In her powerful and deeply moving history of the Reconstruction era, Williams ... s entitlement to access all the privileges of American freedom.” According to Williams, African Americans ...