March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...

Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution in ...

Kevin McGruder is an associate professor of History at Antioch College. The era that we are experiencing now in the United States, in which the 2020 nationwide protests for racial equality have been ...

WASHINGTON during reconstruction was a reflection of the country, as is always likely to be the case when there is a great question pending upon which public attention is fixed. Doubtless a complexity ...

A woman leading a dog cart with vegetables, a man and a woman towing a barge along a canal in the Dutch countryside, with windmills in the background, Netherlands, engraving from The Graphic, 1879.

THE Civil War of 1861-65 (the term is used here for convenience, though it lacks perfect accuracy) was conducted in substantial or reasonable accordance with the settled rules of war ; and at its ...

Mr. Bassin is a co-founder and the executive director of Protect Democracy and a former associate White House counsel. Ms. Parker is counsel at Protect Democracy and a former deputy chief of the ...

It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding the Civil War and Reconstruction. The American constitutional order went through more changes during those two decades than in ...