At a time when so much of American politics seems incited by fear and hatred, it is inspiring to read the words of Rev. William Barber, asking Americans to act in accord with what Lincoln called “the ...

It took the United States two tries to get the Constitution right. The first time was at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The second time was during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the ...

White supremacists succeeded in the 1880s and 1890s, but we do not have to celebrate their victories. Several times a week, I pass by the statue of Melville Fuller outside the old Kennebec County ...

Retired Park Service Ranger Michael Allen and others spent years working toward what eventually became the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort, South Carolina. Allen will tell you ...

A Reconstruction historian said Thursday that the proposed Civil War history center in Fayetteville could be instrumental in helping the nation overcome false impressions of the period. Michael Allen, ...

This October 2023 photo shows work continuing on "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing Park" in the LaVilla neighborhood. One of three surviving LaVilla shotgun houses has been moved to the site, next to a ...

“The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution” (W.W. Norton and Co.), by Eric Foner It took the United States two tries to get the Constitution right. The first ...

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