A Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area partner site meeting held at the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic ...

One UC Davis professor is on a mission to create a new dialogue about an oft-ignored period of U.S. history As the National Park Service turns 100 in August, one UC Davis professor is on a mission to ...

A program on the revolutionary Reconstruction-era New Orleans leader Oscar James Dunn, the first Black lieutenant governor in the United States, will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. July 29 on Zoom.

“Reconstruction, the era immediately following the Civil War and emancipation, is full of stories that help us see the possibility of a future defined by racial equity,” the Zinn Education Project ...

In May 1870, John W. Stephens, a white state senator closely allied with black voters, was lured into the lumber room of the stately courthouse in Caswell County, N.C. Inside, members of the local Ku ...

The Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, established in March 2019, has grown to 25 sites in South Carolina with the recent addition of four. The network now includes 81 sites in 27 states ...

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks... How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum has been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, the National Parks Service announced Wednesday. The national ...

COLUMBIA — University of South Carolina students may know little to nothing about the time the campus became majority Black. They may never have heard of the first Black student to enroll at the ...

West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In an early June op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic ...

The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have been followed by a well-crafted campaign to misrepresent the vocabulary and ...

Sherrilyn Ifill delivered a lecture on reimagining American democracy, the role of the 14th Amendment of the U.S.