Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies is a 4,300-square-foot exhibition exploring the Reconstruction era through an African American lens. It features more than 175 objects, 300 ...

THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1877 by Kennefh M. Stampp. 228 pages. Knopf. $4.95. History has registered the Reconstruction as a monument to the vindictiveness of victory. Prostrate in defeat, the ...

Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution in ...

When Black Reconstruction was published, the ruling consensus on Reconstruction—the period immediately following the Civil War, from 1865 to 1876—was that it had been an outrageous failure, virtually ...

1. Under the Guardianship of the Nation: Assistant Commissioners and the Intellectual Parameters of Action -- 2. A Real Blessing to the Inhabitants of the State: The Organization of the Freedmen's ...

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 ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive social, political, economic, and cultural advancements for Black Americans. Between 1865 and 1877, formerly enslaved people gained ...