The Reconstruction Era

One of the most photographed statues of Abraham Lincoln is the recently erected Lincoln at the New York Historical Society. While it is frequently photographed…

The podcast Decoder Ring has an interesting and troubling story about the attempt to create a video game about the Underground Railroad. This was not…

Rebecca Ritzel has a new article in the New York Times on why movies don’t show Lincoln’s Assassination filmed in Ford’s Theater. Are are some…

Before the Civil War, very few states had laws restricting abortion in the early stages of a pregnancy. For those states that criminalized abortion, most…

The harbor-fronting train station at Liberty State Park had begun to be built in 1860. Earth being removed for construction in Manhattan was shipped across…

The Yale News announced that noted historian David Blight will give a free series of lectures on slavery. Here is the announcement: David W. Blight,…

This is the final article in our four-part series on how South Carolina told its children about the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1918 until…

I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…

Lord Byron, the famous poet, was taken down by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869. Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin before the Civil War and helped…

I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…