Say Something Real By Michelle Bryant As we find ourselves in the midst of another turbulent era in American history, it is ...

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in Civil War and Reconstruction era political violence to contextualize ...

The National Park Service has added seven locations around the U.S. to a nexus of museums and historical sites that help tell the story of the United States during and after the Civil War. The ...

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 ...

Last week I wrote about the effort during post-Civil War Reconstruction to bring Chinese migrants to Arkansas to work on the large cotton plantations of eastern Arkansas. Although this experiment ...

Foreword / by Phillipp Schofield -- Introduction -- Wartime Washington -- The Freedmen's Bureau in the District of Columbia -- Congressional reconstruction in the District of Columbia -- ...