The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering created a new legal test that will be virtually impossible to ...

One UC Davis professor is on a mission to create a new dialogue about an oft-ignored period of U.S. history As the National Park Service turns 100 in August, one UC Davis professor is on a mission to ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive social, political, economic, and cultural advancements for Black Americans. Between 1865 and 1877, formerly enslaved people gained ...

BRATTLEBORO — Teachers are getting a chance to participate in a workshop aimed at uncovering what the Zinn Education Project calls “the hidden, bottom-up history” of the Reconstruction era.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shauna Sias, 48, has lived in Opelousas, Louisiana, almost her entire life. And thanks to her father, a civil rights advocate who ...

Mississippi's secession from the Union in 1861 was driven by the desire to protect slavery. A new state constitution in 1868 aimed to create a multi-racial democracy during Reconstruction. By 1876, ...

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 ...