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 ...

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Prologue: Robert Vesey's Charleston -- "An eagle on his button": Black men fight for the Union -- "To forget and forgive old scores": War's end, activism's beginning ...

Mr. Bassin is a co-founder and the executive director of Protect Democracy and a former associate White House counsel. Ms. Parker is counsel at Protect Democracy and a former deputy chief of 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 May 1870, John W. Stephens, a white state senator closely allied with black voters, was lured into the lumber room of the stately courthouse in Caswell County, N.C. Inside, members of the local Ku ...