In recent political debates over how to teach U.S. history, the subject of slavery has loomed large. Long-documented omissions and misrepresentations in lessons have left students with incomplete ...
BRATTLEBORO — Teachers are getting a chance to participate in a workshop aimed at uncovering what the Zinn Education Project calls “the hidden, bottom-up history” of the Reconstruction era.
Reconstruction is often overlooked. A Smithsonian Black history exhibit says it's an ongoing process
The United States emerged from the Civil War in 1865 with an opportunity. Four million African Americans were promised citizenship and freedom, and the nation had the chance to rebuild after nearly ...
W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing the term “double consciousness” into the lexicon of the Black experience. The term described the duality of being a Black American—neither fully ...
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 ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will debut a new exhibition Sept. 24 exploring an often-overlooked period of history, the Reconstruction era. “Make ...
Mississippi's secession from the Union in 1861 was driven by the desire to protect slavery. A new state constitution in 1868 aimed to create a multi-racial democracy during Reconstruction. By 1876, ...
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 first body of lawmakers to meet at the state house in Columbia, South Carolina, had a Black majority. From 1868 to 1874, South Carolina had a majority Black legislature, the only state to do so to ...
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