In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

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.

In this ambitious study, historian Sinha (The Slave’s Cause) traces Reconstruction’s ramifications beyond its span as official government policy from 1865 to 1877. She proposes that the 60 ...

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 ...

AN EMANCIPATION OF THE MIND: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America, by Matthew Stewart THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SECOND AMERICAN REPUBLIC: Reconstruction ...

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 ...

and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 – 1920 [rebroadcast – ...

and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 – 1920 [rebroadcast – ...

A Long History of Reconstruction, 1860-1900.” The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN. Midterm elections are usually not history-making stuff. Few have been memorable.

A Long History of Reconstruction, 1860-1900.” She signed an amicus brief of historians in Trump v. Anderson. The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN. As our country confronts ...

A Long History of Reconstruction, 1860-1900.” The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN. We must hope that the midterm elections of 2022 might engender that unusual political ...