Reconstruction

An Interview with Kate Masur Jonathan W. White Kate Masur is the Board of Visitors Professor in History at Northwestern University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement,...

By Hon. Frank J. Williams Winning on the battlefield may be relatively “easy” compared to winning the peace afterward.   Abraham Lincoln was a political genius in keeping together conservatives, moderates and Radicals during the American Civil War, especially after he...

As a nation, do we tend to ignore the history of Reconstruction?