Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

The Black Panthers’ Liberation School, San Francisco, 1969. (UPI / Getty) When it comes to understanding modern politics, analogies abound. We have the 1938 Munich conference as a metaphor for the ...

IN THE wake of a bloody and protracted war, Americans turned their attention to the most intractable of their social problems. Influential media of news and opinion and a major political party ...

President Barack Obama designated as national monuments three Southern sites connected with the Civil Rights movement and post-Civil War Reconstruction. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada E.

Americans, if asked, often say that Reconstruction after the Civil War ended with the withdrawal of federal troops following the election of 1876. A generation ago, historian C. Vann Woodward in his ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...

The Civil War center has met some skepticism from Black residents. Organizers say it will tell the complete story of the war and Reconstruction, and how they impacted NC. A community meeting is set ...

The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in multiracial democracy ...

The center aims to provide a comprehensive view of North Carolinians' lives during the Civil War and Reconstruction, encompassing diverse perspectives. While facing some skepticism, the project has ...