The lessons that I learned growing up about the power of storytelling to change politics, legislation and the ways entire communities related to each other, reverberate now more than ever. I cling to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work is progressing on the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction as groundbreaking gears up to begin ...

In the past few years, the period in American history known as Reconstruction has become increasingly prominent in the public consciousness. The dominant academic narrative is now mainstream: ...

W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing the term “double consciousness” into the lexicon of the Black experience. The term described the duality of being a Black American—neither fully ...

A history center that would focus on telling stories about how the Civil War and Reconstruction impacted North Carolina could be on shaky ground if Fayetteville and Cumberland County decide not to ...

The Black Panthers’ Liberation School, San Francisco, 1969. (UPI / Getty) When it comes to understanding modern politics, analogies abound. We have the 1938 Munich conference as a metaphor for the ...

Dr. Michael Butler, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of History and Chair of Humanities at Flagler College in St. Augustine, ...

BRATTLEBORO — Teachers are getting a chance to participate in a workshop aimed at uncovering what the Zinn Education Project calls “the hidden, bottom-up history” of the Reconstruction era.

“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 ...