Produced in partnership with Higher Ground, Pushkin Industries, Audible, and The HISTORY Channel, the series revisits the ...

The series will be released on Audible on Thursday, with all episodes released widely at a later date.

President Barack Obama is one of the prominent voices featured in a new podcast, "Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise," hosted by author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell. The eight-part audio series ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture presents a new exhibition, “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies,” exploring the turbulent Reconstruction era ...

The eight-part series, “Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise,” examines the years after the Civil War and how the era ...

Fill a medium bowl with ice and cold water. Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil. Add the spinach and cook until wilted, 1 to 2 minutes. Drain, then transfer the spinach to the bowl of ice water ...

In May 1870, John W. Stephens, a white state senator closely allied with black voters, was lured into the lumber room of the stately courthouse in Caswell County, N.C. Inside, members of the local Ku ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada E.