Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers—if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

I’ve been thinking about that period for two years, since reading Jon Grinspan’s book, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans ...

The text messages hark back to the era from the early 17th century to the end of the Civil War in 1865, when millions of ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

A skull found in the walls of an Illinois home over four decades ago in 1978 has finally been identified. The skull went ...

But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods ...

Agents told they could face felony under a law passed in 1865 even if responding to a fake threat at polling places. At least one retired FBI agent blasted the memo for treating "street agents like ...

History of the United States Since 1865; Honors Seminar: How High the Fence?; The Vote in U.S. History; The Historian's Craft; Introduction to Latin America; Latin American History Through Film; World ...

The text messages hark back to the era from the early 17th century to the end of the Civil War in 1865, when millions of enslaved Africans were shipped to the United States and forced to toil on ...