The United States grew from a peripheral nation to a world power in a period that high-school history classes often gloss over. The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth it touched ...

Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood ... appearing in a white dress on a float at a U.D.C. celebration with the logo "Protect Us" over it, was a way of saying to the late 19th ...

We like to believe we are a society of security and progress and improvement. Reconstruction makes us face an era when we were something else. Clarence Walker, Historian: The violence in the South ...