There is a curious passage in W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1903 masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, that tries to capture the zeitgeist of those closing decades of the 19th century that ended Reconstruction and ...
“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 ...
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 ...
When Bella Astrofsky, who's poised to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in journalism, began digging through 19th-century newspapers, she did not expect to help inform how historians understand ...
The student-led Black Women’s Diaries Project is creating a digital archive of these inner writings from the 19th- and early 20th-century eras. Conducted by a dozen scholars at The College of William ...
Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the Union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": War's end, activism's beginning ...
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 ...
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 ...
ATLANTA, GEORGIA / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / The National Center for Civil and Human Rights' new gallery, "Broken Promises," is a permanent exhibit on Reconstruction-the period after the ...
Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and ...
National Center for Civil and Human Rights Unveils Broken Promises Gallery “Guided” by Ida B. Wells The gallery presents Black progress during the Reconstruction Era, when nearly four million newly ...
Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...
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