Lawrence Journal-World

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area joins national network to highlight stories from the Reconstruction Era

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 ...
ucdavis.edu

Mapping the Reconstruction Era

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 ...
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What the Reconstruction Era Can Teach Us About the Politics of Shame

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 ...
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National Parks Service adds IAAM to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum has been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, the National Parks Service announced Wednesday. The national ...
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Las Vegas SunOpinion

United States’ two-tier racial system is making a comeback

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

‘Becoming the United States:’ Colonial America to Reconstruction art exhibit at the Great Neck Library

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

Illustrated history of Reconstruction spotlights the era’s transformation

“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 ...
LancasterOnline

Lancaster's Stevens-Smith history center joins National Park Service network on Reconstruction

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and ...
The Daily Northwestern

Pulitzer finalist discusses new book on the Reconstruction era

Pulitzer Prize finalist and Northwestern history Prof. Kate Masur visited Bookends & Beginnings to discuss her new book, “Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D ...

Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin's Creed game featuring a Black Assassin confronting the Ku Klux Klan during the 1800s due to Yasuke backlash and the political climate ...

Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin's Creed game that would have featured a Black protagonist set during the post-American Civil War period due to the current political state of the United States ...
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What the Reconstruction Era Can Teach Us About the Politics of Shame

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...