America’s Reconstruction era, which lasted a little more than three decades, from the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 to the white riot in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, was a ...

The second reconstruction, we see it where there is racial progress, voting rights, civil rights, but followed by racial backlash. This third reconstruction, Obama in certain ways is not really just ...

The lessons that I learned growing up about the power of storytelling to change politics, legislation and the ways entire communities related to each other, reverberate now more than ever. I cling to ...

The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in multiracial democracy ...

Discover how history repeats itself on Wide Awake America, with insights from Manisha Sinha on current political challenges.

March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...

Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The ...

Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1866 -- Congressional Reconstruction, 1866-1869 -- "Let us have peace," 1869-1873 -- The end of Reconstruction, 1873-1877 -- Coda, 1879 "The defeat of the Confederacy ...

The split screen interpretations of Jan. 6′s meaning for American democracy by Republican and Democratic Party officials reflect debates, conflicts, and divisions that can be traced back to the ...

Don’t skip the chapter after the Civil War. But the notion that Reconstruction was a terrible mistake, a rape of the South by the unscrupulous and the vengeful that could only be redressed by letting ...