PBS

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

On a misty April evening in 1865, a jubilant crowd packed the White House lawn to hear President Abraham Lincoln first speech since the end of the Civil War. They expected a stirring celebration of ...
Yahoo

A New Report Finds That 45 States Are 'Failing' to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence ...
Washington Post

Lies we teach to kids about the Reconstruction era

Facial reconstructions of enslaved African Americans who worked at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. (Katherine Frey/The ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Reconstruction in Crisis: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

Explore the Reconstruction era following the Civil War and the rise of the KKK in the South. Explore the Reconstruction era ...
Phys.org

Journalism scholars document newspapers' role in reconstruction-era authoritarianism

When Bella Astrofsky, who's poised to graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in journalism, began digging through 19th-century newspapers, she did not expect to help inform how historians understand ...
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 ...
insider.si.edu

National Museum of African American History and Culture Opens New Exhibition “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies”

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will debut a new exhibition Sept. 24 exploring an often-overlooked period of history, the Reconstruction era. “Make ...
CounterPunch

Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?

West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In an early June op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic ...
The Daily News Journal

New Reconstruction Era Exhibition Shows How Reform and Resistance Have Shaped U.S. Civil Rights

ATLANTA, GEORGIA / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / The National Center for Civil and Human Rights’ new gallery, “Broken Promises,” is a permanent exhibit on Reconstruction-the period after the ...
PR

Ken Raymond’s Newly Released “Black History Heroes of the Reconstruction Era” is a Compelling Exploration of the Contributions of Black Leaders in Post-Civil War America

Winston Salem, NC, April 10, 2025 --(PR.com)-- “Black History Heroes of the Reconstruction Era: The Biography of Congressman Robert Brown Elliot”: a riveting portrait of a trailblazing figure in ...
The Nation

Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?

A protestor raises a fist during a Moral Mondays protest led by the Rev. William Barber in North Carolina in 2016. (Pilar Timpane / Flickr) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...