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 ...
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 ...
The Dec. 19, 1876 edition of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated depicted the Republican-dominated S.C. Legislature. Provided photo courtesy of Historic Columbia Columbia will host a public symposium to ...
A dozen years after first being rebuffed in South Carolina, the National Park Service is poised to make another run at designating trails, historic sites, and perhaps a park or two in commemoration of ...
Michael Allen A SACRED PLACE Michael Allen knows about places like Mitchelville, places where history is hidden in plain site. National Parks Service employee Michael Allen, part of a team surveying ...
I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” Martin Luther King Jr. was ...
In the past few years, the period in American history known as Reconstruction has become increasingly prominent in the public consciousness. The dominant academic narrative is now mainstream: ...
Squeezed between the devastation of the U.S. Civil War and the excesses of the Gilded Age, the pivotal era of Reconstruction doesn't always get the attention it deserves in grade-school history ...
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 Islamic Revolution’s ‘Red-Green Alliance’ Comes to America Florida Leads the Way Out of Racial Gerrymanders Why ‘Meritocracy’ Enrages the Left Obama’s Obfuscation Fits a Partisan Pattern Audio By ...
The failure of Reconstruction remains a pivotal event in U.S. history, and the changing ways in which successive generations of historians have understood the period illustrate the dramatic shifts in ...
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