Highlighting Black political leadership provides a fuller picture of the diverse range of change-makers in the United States ...

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 ...

After the civil war, Black men were given the right to vote. With that came the election of 52 Blacks who served on the state ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore America’s Reconstruction Era – the period after the Civil War – through the national parks with a free lecture at noon Aug. 9 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. The ...

National Center for Civil and Human Rights Unveils Broken Promises Gallery “Guided” by Ida B. Wells ATLANTA, GEORGIA / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / The National Center for Civil and Human ...

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 ...

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 ...