The Creeks, Cozzens points out, “Lived in a land of abundance,” with vast territorial holdings that were, the American Indian ...

Of course, like in all eras of American political history ... Eric Foner: Most of the Reconstruction legislation remains on the books. Some of it doesn't. The 1875 law was declared unconstitutional.

The Iraq Reconstruction Management Office encouraged American contractors to hire Iraqis, but the effort wound up diverting cash to middlemen, the book said. After years of downsizing in the ...

Subscribers can access PDF versions of every issue in The Atlantic ... to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

This past summer, Trump announced his new coalition, “Black Americans for Trump.” While this seems oxymoronic to most here at ...

Author and commentator Mel K asks, what is to be done about the latter-day Bolsheviks who are trying to do to us what Lenin did to Russia.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln endowed the Civil War with sacred meaning, creating an American Scripture and ... felt that much that is in that book had its root in the awful scenes ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “On Reconstruction,” a ... with the headline “The Black Roots of American Education.” When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive ...

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution that was signed and sent to states to ratify is up for auction in North Carolina.

You’ll find more information about alternatives to breast reconstruction through the American Cancer Society, BreastCancer.org, and groups such as: Miraj Shah-Khan, MD, medical director of the ...

In a new book ... freed African American families who had been enslaved at a nearby ironworks, the settlement — which exists today, though barely — fits into a tradition of Reconstruction ...