Gregory P. Downs

While Wednesday's images shocked us, they fit into our history.

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.

Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

A detailed look at when and where the U.S. Army was able to enforce the new rule of law in the years following the Civil War.