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A New Report Finds That 45 States Are 'Failing' to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular music

A decision by Fisk University in 1871 helped shape American popular music, according to Vann Newkirk of The Atlantic. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks... How a Reconstruction-era singing tour changed popular ...
The Washington Post

Lies we teach to kids about the Reconstruction era

Facial reconstructions of enslaved African Americans who worked at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. (Katherine Frey/The ...
CounterPunch

Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?

West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In an early June op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic ...
JSTOR Daily

Reconstruction beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom

Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to ...
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Opens New Exhibition “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies”

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will debut a new exhibition Sept. 24 exploring an often-overlooked period of history, the Reconstruction era. “Make ...
Education Week

What’s the History of Reconstruction? In Many States, Students Don’t Get the Whole Picture

In recent political debates over how to teach U.S. history, the subject of slavery has loomed large. Long-documented omissions and misrepresentations in lessons have left students with incomplete ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area joins national network to highlight stories from the Reconstruction Era

A Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area partner site meeting held at the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has joined a national historic ...
The Clarion-Ledger

Illustrated history of Reconstruction spotlights the era’s transformation

“Freedom Was in Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region” details the reassessment of the Reconstruction era. The book highlights the creation of the Reconstruction ...
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Confused Trump Says the Civil War and Reconstruction Were the Same Thing: ‘A Fancy Way of Saying the Civil War’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and ...
The Nation

Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction?

A protestor raises a fist during a Moral Mondays protest led by the Rev. William Barber in North Carolina in 2016. (Pilar Timpane / Flickr) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...