Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1866 -- Congressional Reconstruction, 1866-1869 -- "Let us have peace," 1869-1873 -- The end of Reconstruction, 1873-1877 -- Coda, 1879 "The defeat of the Confederacy ...

Decision by decision, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is hardening America’s division into a two-tier society ...

Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern Court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a ...

Introduction -- Our Appeal for a Republican Birthright: The Ideology of Black Republicanism before the Civil War -- PART I. Caste versus Citizenship in Pennsylvania -- Citizens for Protection: The ...

All Case Western Reserve University community members are invited to attend the lecture “Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction” featuring ...

Historian Nell Painter remarked in 2011, “Being white these days isn’t what it used to be.” For the past decade, wave upon wave of protests against police violence and mass incarceration have drawn ...

The Great Neck Library will present "Becoming the United States," an art exhibit about America from colonial times to the ...