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Born in the aftermath of the bloody Civil War, Reconstruction was America's attempt to make good on its founding promise of civil and political equality. The Reconstruction years of 1865 to 1877 ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine opened a new replica of a 1738 fort that holds a ...

The Trump administration initiated the rollback of sanctions on Syria. The US Treasury issued General License 25, authorizing ...

President Donald Trump's administration is lifting sanctions on war-torn Syria, with the goal of speeding recovery and ...

Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was also appointed as special envoy for Syria, described in a post on X​ ...

Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

Three major diplomatic challenges have driven a wedge between the United States and Russia in their peace negotiations. Their ...

Now, some African Americans did learn to read and write ... New Orleans has a few desegregated schools for a brief time during Reconstruction, but nobody makes it work in the rural parishes.

Gov. Wes Moore, the nation’s only Black governor, recently caused a stir in the movement for reparations in his state.

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...