During the Reconstruction era that followed the American ... from the ashes of near-self-destruction in 1860 to reconquer the House of Representatives in 1874, the Senate in 1878, and the ...

But in 1935 he wrote his most important book yet, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880, about the dual Americas that briefly coalesced as one in the aftermath of a bloody Civil War.

Historian Chaplin (The First Scientific American) provides an enthralling exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s little-remembered but most commercially successful invention. The Continue reading ...

The scholarship on Reconstruction is vast and comprehensive ... Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880” — is that the period was a grand struggle between ...

Particularly interesting for students of human culture is the sudden freeing of these black folk in the Nineteenth Century and the attempt, through them, to reconstruct the basis of American democracy ...

Historians generally treat Reconstruction as an era whose aspiration ... Mr. Doyle surveys the international political landscape of the 1860s, moving from French-occupied Mexico to London ...

The systematic assault on elections has begun to recall the most politically fraught period in our history, the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era of the 1860s and 1870s. Voting is essential in any ...

In “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,” Fergus Bordewich focuses on an especially violent chapter of the late 1860s and ’70s. In the aftermath of the Civil War ...

NOW, ROUGHLY A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS LATER, THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN 1860, IS RECEIVING RENDERINGS ... on Thursday about the Broad Street Market reconstruction.Video above: Harrisburg reveals ...