Palmetto Publishing releases a new historical fiction novel, The Sultana's Saboteur, a visceral exploration of the Reconstruction Era written by Danny T. and Elizabeth P. Ferguson. The novel places a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence ...

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 ...

“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 Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada E.

Facial reconstructions of enslaved African Americans who worked at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. (Katherine Frey/The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shauna Sias, 48, has lived in Opelousas, Louisiana, almost her entire life. And thanks to her father, a civil rights advocate who ...

In his new book, Peniel Joseph writes that there have been three periods of Reconstruction in American history. First, the post-Civil War period brought the end of slavery and the fight for Black ...