“Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region” details the reassessment of the Reconstruction era. The book highlights the creation of the Reconstruction ...

Some historians consider the Reconstruction Era to cover the next 10 years until 1877, to reintegrate southern states as well as 4 million formerly enslaved into the nation. That year, the last ...

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 to ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and ...

A brief expose on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution! The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were meant to fix the social and political ...