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Fact-checking Byron Donalds’ ‘Jim Crow’ comments on Black families, conservatism
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJim Crow laws were enacted over several decades after the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction in...
Essay winners: Juneteenth lets us remember nation's past while striving for better future
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThere is still much work to be done. Victories like this one encourage us to continue the fight....
Human Rights Must Be at Core of International Meetings on Peace and Reconstruction in Ukraine
Amnesty International· 4 days agoThe international community must ensure that the focus of two major conferences on peace and ...
A Civil War hero got a new statue. Her name is Harriet Tubman.
The Christian Science Monitor· 19 hours agoEight years ago, on a campus with the bust and burial site of the incomparable Robert Smalls, Mr....
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRather than start Reconstruction with the end of the Civil War, as historians often do, Sinha argues that it ought to begin with the ...
‘The Age of Reconstruction’ Review: A Global Emancipation
The Wall Street Journal· 7 days agoBOOKSHELF Historians generally treat Reconstruction as an era whose aspiration, drama and importance...
Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved people were stripped of land
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 1 day agoJournalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says some freed men and women were given titles to land following the Civil War -- but after President Lincoln's death, the land was taken back.
The Best True-Story TV Shows of 2024 (So Far)
Esquire via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoDescribed as “a conspiracy thriller,” Manhunt connects Lincoln's death to a lesser-known political struggle to preserve Lincoln’s plans for ...
'Manhunt' star: Lincoln's assassination is still a call to protect democracy
Los Angeles Times· 4 hours agoIt was Stanton, one of Lincoln’s former rivals, who led the charge to track down Booth (played in...
Concerns about America’s future [letter]
Lancaster Online· 3 days agoThe work ahead for whoever is elected in November will be of historic proportions, as there are presently two large wars, civil unrest, racial issues and...
