They're only half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation ... be full partners in the story of American life. The promise is there in the first Reconstruction, but it is aborted.

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched off remade the American nation in the late 19th century but are studied less deeply than the Civil War that preceded them and ...

KINGSPORT − The Tri Cities Civil War Round Table is hosting a presentation relating to the American Civil War and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a last-minute case Tuesday for a plan for the post-war reconstruction ... and stressed that multiple American administrations from ...

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...

The post-war deal would take shape in negotiations after an initial ceasefire. US Secretary of State Antony ... with responsibility for key civil sectors in Gaza, like banking, water, energy ...

The outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011 marked a turning ... Similarly, European and American engineering firms could benefit from reconstruction contracts, but the current sanctions regime ...

Blinken Makes the Case for Post-War Reconstruction ... unprecedented missile attacks from Iran and stressed that multiple American administrations from both political parties have vowed never ...