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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

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.

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 National Park Service announced the addition of four sites — including the Wilson Bruce Evans Home in Oberlin — to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. This national network connects ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture presents a new exhibition, “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies,” exploring the turbulent Reconstruction era ...

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 ...

Facial reconstructions of enslaved African Americans who worked at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. (Katherine Frey/The ...

The year was 1871, and Fisk University was struggling. Fisk was just a few years old then - one of the institutions founded in the South to educate Black people after the Civil War. The school's choir ...