Stephanie McCurry

First-person accounts of those scarred in many ways by the era’s violence suggest Reconstruction did not fail, it was overthrown by violence.

The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy.

What the Confederacy actually was: a proslavery anti-democratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal.

A new history of Andrew Johnson’s trial reminds us the impeachment is a tool to constrain executive abuse of power and publicize dissent on matters of policy.

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.