Reconstruction - AAIHS

African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

During the presidential primaries of 2016, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders promoted a policy that, for many, was a radical idea.

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

In a recent interview with Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Commission, stated, “What we do in the memorial