Reconstruction-Era Politics Shaped Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Last month, Governor John Bel Edwards proposed a potential $1 billion cut to Louisiana’s higher…
Browsing: Reconstruction
From the Archives… Reconstruction at 150
The OAH’s ongoing commemoration project on the Civil War at 150 has now wrapped up.…
Why Students Don’t Know Anything about Reconstruction: Three Modern Myths
Since the late 1990s, I have been teaching courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction.…
Remembering Reconstruction: The Memphis Massacre of 1866
We’re a nation that loves our centennials and sesquicentennials. We celebrate wars; we celebrate statehood;…
Black and White in the Free State of Jones
I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of…
Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…
Podcast: Nina Silber on Reunion and Reconciliation
In the June 2016 installment of the Journal of American History podcast, Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History,…