The Dec. 19, 1876 edition of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated depicted the Republican-dominated S.C. Legislature. Provided photo courtesy of Historic Columbia Columbia will host a public symposium to ...

Over the past several decades, Eric Foner, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, has established himself as one of the preëminent historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1988, he ...

A dozen years after first being rebuffed in South Carolina, the National Park Service is poised to make another run at designating trails, historic sites, and perhaps a park or two in commemoration of ...

Michael Allen A SACRED PLACE Michael Allen knows about places like Mitchelville, places where history is hidden in plain site. National Parks Service employee Michael Allen, part of a team surveying ...

Joseph is the Inaugural Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Joint Professor of Public Affairs & Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values and Professor of History ...

From the Great Pyramids to Stonehenge, many ancient monuments we know today have been partially rebuilt, re-stacked, or restored. This video explores how reconstruction work, modern archaeology, and ...

The Civil War dominates a lot of people’s conceptions of South Carolina history. But a new tour in Columbia highlights what happened after: the Reconstruction era and the unprecedented advances it ...

Squeezed between the devastation of the U.S. Civil War and the excesses of the Gilded Age, the pivotal era of Reconstruction doesn't always get the attention it deserves in grade-school history ...

I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about Black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” Martin Luther King Jr. was ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will debut a new exhibition Sept. 24 exploring an often-overlooked period of history, the Reconstruction era. “Make ...

A forensic imaging specialist uses facial reconstruction software to see what the woman in the iron coffin may have looked like. African American History in New York City African American communities ...