| 单词 | Reconstruction |
| 例句 | For example, although it is common to think of the Jim Crow regime following immediately on the heels of Reconstruction, the truth is more complicated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All the president needs now is for Grant to finish the rest of the job, and then he can get to the work of reunification that will be known to history as Reconstruction. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His Reconstruction policies were bitterly divisive, to the point that he warred openly with Congress. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I would wonder why I had stressed over that research paper I’d written at Duke on the economic effects of Reconstruction if working at the Dollar Store was to be my life’s work. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Just as Southern legislatures had passed the black codes in response to the early steps of Reconstruction, in the years immediately following Brown v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Jim Crow” laws, dating to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, upheld white supremacy and kept blacks in their place as second-class citizens. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was a reminder of a better time, before the disaster of the Civil War and the ignominy of Reconstruction. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Reconstruction is most typically described as stretching from 1863, when the North freed the slaves, to 1877, when it abandoned them and withdrew federal troops from the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Congress, which during Reconstruction had been quick to enact measures of legal, social, and economic freedom for blacks, just as quickly began to roll them back. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Scholars have long debated the beginning and end of Reconstruction, as well as exactly when Jim Crow ended and the Civil Rights Movement or “Second Reconstruction” began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A mood of outrage and defiance swept the South, not unlike the reaction to emancipation and Reconstruction following the Civil War. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He remained in the army, helping to implement Reconstruction policies that guaranteed the black vote. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Their campaign to “redeem” the South was reinforced by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The backlash against the gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After the Civil War and during the Reconstruction era, the federal government had opened jobs to blacks, providing social mobility particularly for those from educated backgrounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They warned blacks that some Redeemers were not satisfied with having decimated Reconstruction, and were prepared to wage an aggressive war against blacks throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z During the Reconstruction era, African Americans began to serve on juries in the South for the first time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Redeemers who overthrew Reconstruction were inclined to retain such segregation practices as had already emerged, but they displayed no apparent disposition to expand or universalize the system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A similar phenomenon had followed slavery and Reconstruction, as white elites struggled to define a new racial order with the understanding that whatever the new order would be, it could not include slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After a brief period of progress during Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves, once again, virtually defenseless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Consider we had about a decade of Reconstruction. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Within “Reconstructions,” several works draw from and mimic early photography. Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Even so, it was later the home of a Civil War prison for Union soldiers and then, during Reconstruction, a meeting place for freed slaves. These Are America's Coolest Ghost Towns 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s been poorly understood,” Mr. Clyburn, a former high school history teacher, said of Reconstruction. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, set up under the chairmanship of former US president Bill Clinton, met last month for the first time. Haiti earthquake: six months on 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z “We’ve chosen to stay away from the pool,” says Rep. Ron Reynolds, the first African-American state elected official in Fort Bend County since Reconstruction. Texas Democrats are in their fifth week of exile, and grappling with the toll of an endless summer on the run 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Most of my leisure reading involves the topics of slavery and Reconstruction, so I’m constantly thinking about the development of America and the role Africans played. “That white men might roll in ease”: I feel like the first real American in my family, which has been here for centuries 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Within a few years the ambitious project of Reconstruction fell victim to a sustained insurgency led by the Ku Klux Klan and similar white militia groups. Welcome to the new Civil War 2013-01-05T16:30:00Z The self-taught artist Bill Traylor was born into slavery in rural Alabama in the early 1850s, lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and on into Jim Crow. Indelible Impressions From 3 Shows in Washington 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But he knows that a Black Democrat hasn’t won statewide since Reconstruction. This marijuana-smoking, Confederate flag-burning Senate candidate is having a ball 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Such confrontations occurred across the Reconstruction South as white reactionaries sought to wrest the ballot from Black voters. A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Now and then, it suggests the Reconstruction half of “Gone With the Wind,” minus carpetbaggers and freed slaves. | 'Bride Flight?: Three Friends, Each on a Journey 2011-06-09T22:21:07Z For example, from the Civil War to the great experiment in democracy that was Reconstruction, black Americans worked very hard to expand opportunities for all people, including poor and working class whites. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “It took a lot of time and effort to establish the myths of Reconstruction,” he said. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z This victory, and others like it, eventually influenced key policies during Reconstruction, specifically the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Van Gosse’s “The First Reconstruction” examines the influence that free Black men had on electoral politics in the North. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Reconstruction did include real moments of successful political and social integration, “but whether they could have survived the power and ugliness of race hatred, I’m skeptical,” Mr. Brophy said. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Thanksgiving, in fact, wasn’t even around during slavery; it was embraced by some black families during Reconstruction and beyond, and even then not everybody celebrated it, including the family of esteemed Southern cook Edna Lewis. The roots of black Thanksgiving: Why mac and cheese and potato salad are so popular 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting.” Will Smith film departs Georgia over voting restrictions 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Grant was the two-term president of the Reconstruction, an era of extraordinary if fleeting gains for African Americans. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The average American student is aware that there was something called "Reconstruction" that occurs after the Civil War ended, but cannot elaborate on what it was, what it achieved or how long it lasted. Understand racism by watching these movies and TV shows exploring the Black experience in America 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Allen’s masterly novel blends the personal story of the enslaved autistic piano prodigy Thomas Wiggins with the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z These artifacts will tell stories of slavery, Reconstruction, segregation and the civil rights movement. African American museum designed with emotions in mind 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Chasing after hard-boiled eggs on a grand public lawn is a peculiar D.C. tradition created by children of the Reconstruction and Victorian eras. White House Easter Egg Roll to return for first time in two years 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z This revelatory book is about the “first civil rights movement” — the fight for Black people’s freedom and equality from the Revolutionary War to Reconstruction. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Evidence suggests that he was an “agent” during Reconstruction and worked on the farm of J. W. Taylor. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Reconstruction can be a challenging story to tell, given how it cuts against deeply held American ideas about steady moral progress. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z That’s largely due to the efforts of historians of the Dunning School, who spent decades creating a narrative of Reconstruction as a tyrannical, corrupt and failed social experiment. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But black representatives in Reconstruction legislatures were clear that more was needed; they demanded equal access to education, voting rights and equal protection under the law. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Front-page conflagrations compel Kennedy to send troops; terrified segregationists fear a Second Reconstruction. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Smalls became a crusading state legislator and United States congressman during Reconstruction. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In 2015, renowned slavery and Reconstruction historian Eric Foner wrote, "Slave is a familiar word and if it was good enough for Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists it is good enough for me." "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z “Some Sing, Some Cry” moves through Reconstruction, two World Wars, the Great Migration, and the civil rights movement. A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z Some might perceive the establishment of the reservation system in the 1830s and the “40 acres and a mule” program during Reconstruction as beginning efforts to correct injustices associated with land and race. Congress likely to legalize hemp in farm bill. It should also heal USDA’s history of discrimination 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Why do you think it is that Reconstruction is barely touched upon in our American history education? Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z I knew some of their stuff from the radio but really got into them in ninth grade on the "Fables of the Reconstruction" record. Remembering R.E.M. 2011-09-22T00:30:00Z Instead of referring to Reconstruction, he insisted on the term “restoration.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z They recall the warm, atmospheric sound the group got on its early albums like “Reckoning” and “Fables of the Reconstruction.” Peter Buck sounds off: Looking back at R.E.M’s “Out of Time” and “Losing Our Religion” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z But there was little follow-through, so in the decades that followed Reconstruction, the process was punctuated by reversions and rebellions. 2010-02-12T23:24:00Z Think of the civil rights movement to the present as a second Reconstruction — a 50-year Reconstruction — that ended last night. Henry Louis Gates on Trump: “That election clearly represented a backlash against the progress black people have made since 1965″ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z In the early days of Reconstruction, federally funded veterans’ cemeteries were reserved for only Union soldiers. The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Before the Civil War and through to Reconstruction and afterwards, white Americans were afraid of "negro domination" if black slaves and then free people were given access to the vote and other civil rights. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In preparing for the exhibition, the architects and designers formed the Black Reconstruction Collective, modeling the self-determination and liberation values they insist are necessary. Best Art Books of 2021 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Its followers, Foner writes, believed that “blacks lacked the capacity to participate intelligently in political democracy,” thus providing the intellectual rationale for the South to overthrow Reconstruction and the North to disown it. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Across the South, Jim Crow laws and racial terror were demolishing the gains of Reconstruction. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z “It was not inevitable that Reconstruction was going to fail,” Mr. Ross said. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The Met’s contribution, “Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video From the Met Collection,” is not framed as a showcase of what’s new, hot or trending, but it relates both subtly and significantly to these two exhibitions. Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The history of America is the history of race and economics, and their intertwining, from slavery to freedom, through Reconstruction, and then Redemption, the rollback. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z These two periods, the war and Reconstruction, are chronologically contiguous, but occupy radically different places in the general American consciousness. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In his popular book, Haygood eased consciences that the end of Reconstruction meant the end of black rights. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Old women unfold patterns first traced on flour sack dresses in the time of the WPA, or Reconstruction, or The War. Southern Journal: Trade Day 2011-07-06T21:50:00.733Z It was here that Union forces took control in November 1861, setting the stage for what the historian Willie Lee Rose called the “rehearsal for Reconstruction.” Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z For African Americans, the promises and failure of Reconstruction, and the de facto apartheid of Jim Crow made the promise of emancipation often seem desperately shallow. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “The writing of history of the Reconstruction period has been so completely confederatized during the last two or three generations that we naturally are somewhat anxious,” he wrote. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The film’s vision of Reconstruction is a farrago. The New Season DVDs: New DVDs: ?Citizen Kane,? ?Going Places,? ?Birth of a Nation? 2011-09-18T00:13:03Z Du Bois explained in his seminal, essential text, "Black Reconstruction." Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z We’re developing several new history projects for PBS: One of them is on the first Reconstruction. Henry Louis Gates on Trump: “That election clearly represented a backlash against the progress black people have made since 1965″ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Congress was wrestling with the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower would sign in the fall. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z “Reconstruction” chooses to tell its story soberly and quietly. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Reconstruction Community, a collective of architects, artists and theorists, also supports ongoing research and projects related to the metropolis. Athens arts scene flourishes in midst of economic crisis 2012-07-27T18:35:03Z Reconstruction ended in 1877, a dozen years after the end of the Civil War. The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The idea of a “lost cause” originally emerged in the period after Reconstruction. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z This is by design, as professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and fellow profession and Reconstruction expert Eric Foner demonstrate in this four-hour documentary is an effort to correct that shameful omission. Understand racism by watching these movies and TV shows exploring the Black experience in America 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z After the war, we read of real threats faced by African Americans during the dissolution of Reconstruction when their access to power sent some whites into violent rage. Review | A book about the Civil War that speaks to our times, too 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z An interactive exhibit called “The Reconstruction Game” finds humor in the uphill battle for black progress, but overstays its welcome; so does a faux political forum that features slapdash impressions of some American presidents. ‘Black History Museum’ Review: Learn. Laugh. Suffer. Move Along. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The hero of “Dawson’s Fall” is Robinson’s great-grandfather Frank, an Englishman turned Confederate captain turned liberal newspaperman, one of the few white voices in Reconstruction South Carolina trying to tip the scales toward humanity. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “Freedom’s Dominion” returns to the region more than three decades later, during the “radical” phase of Reconstruction. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He uses racist slurs in private but works publicly to enact the most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. Why is Lyndon B Johnson suddenly prevalent in pop culture? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Taking up this charge, four new picture books by award-winning authors and illustrators introduce slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights movement to a new generation. Four children's books introduce African American experiences 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Debates about race simmered at the time, too — Reconstruction began collapsing in those years — but Mr. Levy says Twain was less central to that conversation. ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The film is divided, more or less equally, into two parts, the first set during the Civil War and the second during Reconstruction. ?Birth of a Nation,? Born Again for DVD 2011-11-27T05:03:04Z We follow the ebb and flow of beliefs and emotions, hopes and fears, from the invasion of Confederate forces into Pennsylvania in 1863 through the tumult of Reconstruction. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Mitchell S. Jackson, in reviewing this novel for The New York Times Book Review, wrote that it “brilliantly portrays the story of Blind Tom while providing keen insight into the history of Reconstruction.” Spare Times Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The justification for this approach was that Reconstruction was unnatural, immoral and reckless. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z In his memoirs, published in 1883, Julian attributed the attempt to remove Johnson from office to overheated politics rather than concerns about Reconstruction. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z He has won multiple honors for work focused on the Lincoln era and Reconstruction. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z But when Johnson was eventually impeached, it wasn’t for his subversion of Reconstruction; it was for failing to obtain Congressional approval before he fired his secretary of war. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z And then the third album, “Fables of the Reconstruction,” is all stories, and mostly of characters that are based in the South. Michael Stipe, Another Outsider at the Art Fair 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Sun’s latest work, “Reconstruction of the Universe,” was originally to have its premiere at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2015, but its production was too unwieldy to finish in time. A Chinese Artist Consumed by the Idea of Inevitable Change 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And because Reconstruction ended, there was a century in the south of the Ku Klux Klan and terrorism and all the ugliness of American history that we often prefer not to think about. ‘We may have a wild roller-coaster ride’ after the election, says Ohio State law professor Edward Foley 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Urofsky explores nearly all aspects of the program — its legal, educational, economic, electoral and gender dimensions, from its untitled beginnings during Reconstruction to the present. Affirmative Action: The Uniquely American Experiment 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Our pre-eminent scholar of Reconstruction homes in on the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, all passed after the Civil War, to argue that these provisions, enormously consequential at the time, remain central to America’s identity. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z One of the first great fruits of Reconstruction is the establishment, in the 14th Amendment, of birthright citizenship, now under attack. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It sought to discredit racial progress during Reconstruction, and justify the systematic, often violent, White backlash that ensued. Perspective | A new era of incivility in Congress brings ‘The Birth of a Nation’ full circle 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Once Trump was elected, I said, “We do the black church later and Great Migration. We have to do Reconstruction, because of its allegorical implications for race relations and politics today.” Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z For his part, Johnson vowed to stand against Republican opponents who, he charged, labored to “pervert and destroy” the government with their Reconstruction policies. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Reconstruction of the face of the cook of the Mary Rose, believed to be named Ny Cop or Ny Coep, from the inscription on his bowl and tankard. Mary Rose museum brings public face to face with men who sailed her 2013-05-30T05:00:03Z We’d heard excerpts from “Rehearsal for Reconstruction,” a book about the effort to provide land to the Sea Islands’ freed slaves during and after the Civil War. Georgia’s Sea Islands: A destination worth the paddle 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Despite the movie’s title and the events that accrete around Newton’s actions, the scenes of Reconstruction are the furious heart of the film. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “District Merchants” is set in Washington, D.C., and Belmont, Mass., in the period of Reconstruction — a far cry from magical, mercantile, money-obsessed Venice and Portia’s enchanted island. 'Merchant of Venice' set in post-Civil War America? That's Aaron Posner's 'District Merchants' 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow,” an indispensable guide to the making of our times, addresses 2017’s mystifications. In ‘Stony the Road,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr. Captures the History and Images of the Fraught Years After the Civil War 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z But the 1939 classic — still the highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation — has enduringly shaped popular understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction perhaps more than any other cultural artifact. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Urban segregation, Mr. Hanchett suggests, was a later creation, part of the rebellion against Reconstruction. 2010-02-12T23:24:00Z “Forty acres and a mule” was the promise to formerly enslaved people during the First Reconstruction, recognizing that their success would require an economic base. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Even though the Department of War was constitutionally under the president, it operated as a kind of quasi-independent entity to administer Reconstruction against the wishes of the commander in chief. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Jim Crow legislation ravaged the swift gains of Reconstruction and paralyzed the black electorate for nearly a century; by the 1950s, only 3% of age-eligible black people in the south were registered to vote. 'We are entitled to being heard': Stacey Abrams on the fight to vote 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet the worlds and themes of both reinforce a nostalgia for a plantation in the Reconstruction era, with its idyllic beauty and “bodacious” critters, its simple life lessons, and its harmonious racial hierarchies. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z You describe your work at Reconstruction US as “unapologetically Black education.” Former D.C. Public Schools chancellor: Black cultural education ‘could change the entire calculus’ for children 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z This exhibition about Reconstruction and its aftermath doesn’t draw explicit parallels to today’s politics. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z With more than 200 items on display, two new films and 10 audiovisual stations with news and documentary footage, this exhibition highlights the first major civil rights law passed by Congress after Reconstruction. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction But the broadest charge against Johnson — Article XI — alleged that he had attempted to bring Congress into disrepute with intemperate denunciations of its opposition to his Reconstruction program. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z As visitors leave the ghosts in the cages, the museum painstakingly shows how slavery, after Reconstruction, was “dusted off and repurposed” in the American penal system. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The project is part of a $95 million effort financed by the World Bank and Haiti Reconstruction Fund that is aimed at helping more than 500,000 people move back into redeveloped neighborhoods. Sean Penn's group receives grant to house Haitians 2011-09-15T20:56:10Z The Democratic Party, which by terror and state law had overthrown Reconstruction and then annulled the 14th and 15th Amendments, was for whites only. Can You Be Black and Republican? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z This is really the fabric of America – like this idea of a maze incorporates the Civil Rights movement, the Reconstruction Era. From masculinity to race, Apple's basketball series "Swagger" addresses "so much more than sports" 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s called “Reconstruction, Redemption and the Birth of Jim Crow.” Henry Louis Gates on Trump: “That election clearly represented a backlash against the progress black people have made since 1965″ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z “Reconstruction is a way of denying that history.” A Push to Rebuild a Mies Van Der Rohe Modernist Gem 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But instead of enduring the painful eras of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, African-Americans received reparations. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z For adherents — as he observes of the original racist neo-Confederates during Reconstruction — the rejection of federal rule was “a holy cause.” A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Mitchell did for slavery what Dixon did for Reconstruction and Burroughs for Africa. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The new version will be in verse and in prose, with roots in the Renaissance and the Reconstruction and with an awareness of current culture. The quiet impresario: Pulling the right strings at the Folger 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The combatants, occupying opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, battled over post-war Reconstruction. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Reconstructions of early Soviet works including Shostakovich's The Bolt, about sabotage in a Soviet factory, and acquisitions of new work by choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon heralded a visionary shake-up to the repertory. Bolshoi ballet: Power and poise 2010-07-19T20:31:00Z But with the defeat of Reconstruction it was transformed into a long-term system of white supremacy whose persistent effects, and whose very existence, must be repeatedly denied or minimized or greeted with a puzzled shrug. Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past, and it’s poisoning our future 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Reconstruction offered few opportunities for Black men eking out an existence as sharecroppers or unskilled laborers. On Father's Day, Black dads and the fragility of our fortune 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The period of Reconstruction is an even bigger blank. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Here she has gathered dozens of books in New York libraries with bookplates from Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, whose research arm was led by Hannah Arendt. In ‘Afterlives,’ About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “In the 87 years between the end of Reconstruction and 1964,” Jentleson writes, “the only bills that were stopped by filibusters were civil rights bills.” As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z During this “first civil rights movement” — the fight for Black people’s freedom and equality from the Revolutionary War to Reconstruction — states’ rights were mostly what antislavery activists had to work with. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Rather, that in the century after Reconstruction, segregation was not the worst possible outcome for black people. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z “By 1930s Reconstruction was so forgotten no one could even believe there had been black police,” Mr. Ross said. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In keeping with the hunger for national reconciliation, early-20th-century scholars depicted Reconstruction as a time of corrupt “carpetbag rule.” Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z But he agreed with his black friends that Reconstruction’s failures followed not from Northern overreach but from timidity. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Secondly, I think it’s because of “Birth of a Nation,” and members of what's called the Dunning School, the historians who defined what we think about Reconstruction before W.E.B. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Planter led to his rise as a South Carolina congressman during the Reconstruction era, was a plus, too. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The current “Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents” show — which the Met organized with the National Gallery in London — focuses on conflict in the artist’s work, from images of the Civil War and Reconstruction to hunting scenes. Museums Change Their Approach to Showing White Male Artists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Nothing less than a Third Reconstruction holds the promise of healing our nation’s wounds and birthing a better future for all. The power of “we”: Martin Luther King, the March on Washington, and the birth of Moral Mondays 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “They weren’t naïve to think Reconstruction had brought lasting, permanent change.” Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He spent two years at the New York State Reconstruction Home in West Haverstraw, north of the city. Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Generally speaking, there’s this period after the Civil War called Reconstruction. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Although defeated in 1865, this dark strain was never destroyed; indeed, if the Confederacy lost the Civil War, Meacham remarks, in important ways it won the peace following the white South’s fitful overthrow of Reconstruction. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z In early June, R.E.M.’s third album, “Fables of the Reconstruction,” turned 30. R.E.M.’s “Fables of the Reconstruction” hit a major milestone this summer, quietly: A look back at the oddball album that never quite found its place in time 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The revival developed after the nation’s centennial celebrations in 1876, when the scars of the Civil War and the struggles of Reconstruction were salved by these allusions to an almost pastoral colonial past. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z Under congressional Reconstruction, the Southern states were divided into military zones to be occupied and administered by the armed forces while they rewrote their constitutions and rebuilt new biracial governments for all their citizens. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z This reaches back to racist associations from the Civil War and Reconstruction, where “big government” was imagined as protecting black people by "stealing" from “self-reliant” and “disciplined” white Americans. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It goes back into the disenfranchisement after Reconstruction and the Civil War. Birtherism and America’s history of white supremacy: What we can’t let ourselves forget about Donald Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Pinchback — governor of Louisiana for 36 days during Reconstruction! — and I learned that in order to escape merciless daily bullying I needed to victimize someone weaker than me. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z “In terms of creating the political fabric of our present day,” Genetin-Pilawa said, “Reconstruction is more important.” The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The answer arrives April 9 with the Gates-produced, four-hour “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,” which he hopes enlightens people to what he believes is one of the least understood periods of the nation’s history. No relaxation for PBS with Democratic House takeover 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z There is another narrative quietly threading its way through “Reconstructions.” Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Tourgée was not uncritical of Reconstruction — he called his best-selling novel based on his time in the South “A Fool’s Errand, by One of the Fools.” The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Instead, the birth itself occurs once the bright promises of racial reconciliation and Reconstruction were scuttled. A Hundred Years Later, “The Birth of a Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. Sterling K. Brown reflects on playing O.J. prosecutor Chris Darden on TV and a slave in the 'Father Comes Home' play 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But, when the war ends, the state is reabsorbed into Mississippi, and Reconstruction begins. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Within the narrative of the film — which spans from the Antebellum to Reconstruction periods on a Georgia plantation — slave owners and slavery supporters are the heroes and slaves appear as happy, loving servants. "Gone With the Wind" dropped from Memphis theater over racial concerns 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z After America’s First Reconstruction was attacked by the lynch mobs of white supremacists in the 1870s, it took nearly a hundred years for a Second Reconstruction to emerge in the civil rights movement. The power of “we”: Martin Luther King, the March on Washington, and the birth of Moral Mondays 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Holder, which invalidated portions of the Voting Rights Act and freed nine states, mostly in the South, from federal oversight of elections, was reminiscent of the rollback of African-American political rights after Reconstruction. For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Congress also created a Joint Committee on Reconstruction to investigate conditions in the former Confederacy. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Aspects covered in the exhibition: slavery, abolition, Civil War, Reconstruction, segregation, the civil rights movement and Black Heritage stamp series. African American history, as seen through letters and stamps 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But Greg Downs, a history professor at the University of California, Davis, and also an expert on Reconstruction, said the gist of what Mr. Jackson said sounded right. Samuel L. Jackson Defends Use of Epithet in ‘Hateful Eight’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But Julian and his allies quickly became disillusioned with Johnson after he issued a pair of proclamations that set out a liberal course on Reconstruction. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Defeats on the battlefield as well as the trials of the early Reconstruction period were cast as Christlike tribulations that would lead to a resurrection of the old order. The South’s Fight for White Supremacy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Naturally, Passepartout isn't exempt from storylines about his identity either, whether it's as a Frenchman or being Black in the Old West during the Reconstruction era. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Reconstruction, using the real words of real people, is by now a common theatrical form, from TV docudramas to theatrical reconstructions of trials, tribunals, riots and enquiries. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z For Gates, works such as “African American Lives” and “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” comment on the state of race relations in America simply by existing. The stealthy politics of "Finding Your Roots" 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Which is to say, the Modern itself partly necessitated the Black Reconstruction Collective. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Reconstruction’s enfranchising policies were a “tragedy,” Pike wrote, nothing but “the slave rioting in the halls of his master.” A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z This inclusion from her collection “Poems” addressed “precious children” whose “fingers are unskilled” for the task of “building freedom’s throne” in this Reconstruction moment. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z “The language is just so strong in the literature of the period,” said Manisha Sinha, a historian at the University of Connecticut who studies abolitionism, the Civil War and Reconstruction. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Congress, two senators and, depending on how you sort of chart Reconstruction, about a dozen House members. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Adam Domby is an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston, where he teaches the Civil War and Reconstruction. Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Now, he’s the on-the-ground coordinator for what may be an even more ambitious project: improving public understanding of the complex, poorly understood and still hotly contested period known as Reconstruction. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z I learned about Black Americans during Reconstruction, poor drug policy, and how toxic Ronald Reagan really had been. College was necessary for me. Will my own child need it like I did? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In North Carolina, it’s tobacco and textiles moving from the antebellum period to the Civil War, after Reconstruction and beyond, to what’s happening today. On PBS, Old Photos Tell New Stories 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Seward's support of Johnson's Reconstruction policies angered radical Republicans, however, and made him increasingly unpopular in his own party. 'Seward': a new biography of Lincoln's right-hand man 2012-09-26T22:15:06Z Born during Reconstruction, Storer survived violence and was the site of other historic moments, including contributing to the birth of the modern civil rights era. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z He was the first independent elected to the South Carolina House since Reconstruction. SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy 2010-03-24T00:06:00Z The first details how white supremacists rejected the goals of Reconstruction and chafed under what they called “Negro domination.” When White Supremacists Overthrew an Elected Government 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But even as it was being commemorated as one of the signal achievements of post-Civil War Reconstruction, its bedrock provisions were colliding with the furious 21st-century debate over immigration. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A staple of the band’s later tours, “Walk Unafraid” harkens to the troubled guitar jags and biblical references of 1985′s “Fables of the Reconstruction.” R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z His “inability to read congressional Reconstruction as a moral struggle rather than a political blunder,” Brown writes, “testified to a deeper private indifference in regard to race.” The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z And I'm wondering how much you think, looking at all these issues of Reconstruction that are kind of echoing through to the present, how much of these gains and losses are cyclical. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s also about everyday African-American life, intrinsically political and captured in images of 19th-century cotton field workers; World War I soldiers; black members of the South Carolina legislature during Reconstruction. ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Shows Artists Shaping Their Times 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Such projects include a documentary, to be co-produced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting, about the Colfax Massacre — named after the town and parish where dozens of former slaves were killed during Reconstruction. National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $31.5 Million in Grants 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Hardly anyone, it seems, wants to admit the truth: nearly a half-century of financial, political and social gains are being reversed, perhaps permanently, and the post-civil rights era may come to resemble Reconstruction’s fleeting progress. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z This companion to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, including dozens of archival photographs and a foreword by the historian Eric Foner, grapples with the lost promise of American Reconstruction. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Griffith’s explicitly racist account of the birth of the Klan and the evils of Reconstruction. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z For example, Reconstruction did not collapse because of its inherent faults, as my high school teachers said. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The show is a calm, often devastating argument that the legacy of slavery, and forced labor dating to Reconstruction, persists in the country’s prison system. In Cameron Rowland’s ‘91020000,’ Disquieting Sculptures 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Reconstruction of the Caerleon fortress in the Roman period, showing the buildings discovered by Cardiff University students. Roman fortress Caerleon gives up new treasures to archaeology students 2010-08-12T15:21:00Z For those who don’t know, Goldwater’s claim to fame is that he was the first Republican to win the Deep South since Reconstruction. Hillary’s atrocious race record: Her stances over decades have been painful and wrong 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Gewirtz suggests that Twain, in fact, never engaged the failures of Reconstruction. Critic?s Notebook: Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z She took on various financial oversight roles and eventually became deputy to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, whose office tried to account for $61 billion in often hastily distributed U.S. aid. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In the museum, the history is told through rooms hung salon-style with documents, paintings and photographs that shed light on the French and Spanish colonial eras and enslavement, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The Depression-era Reconstruction Finance Corporation seized failing banks, cleaned up their balance sheets, and later transferred these institutions back to private ownership. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z At the time, Wilmington was a model of Reconstruction success, a city where black citizens were thriving financially, politically, and culturally. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Subliminally, that has become our memory of black achievement in Reconstruction. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “The foundation we require for Ego Reconstruction is Ego Deconstruction,” he tells his disciples. Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Foner agrees with the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner that the Reconstruction amendments were “sleeping giants,” and notes that they provided the foundation for the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z He began to explore a different history of Reconstruction than the one most other white South Carolinians knew, drawing inspiration especially from Gunnar Myrdal’s 1,400-page study, “An American Dilemma.” The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z For some historians, the creation of the Reconstruction monument, by the nation’s first African-American president, represents a particularly sweet symbolic victory. President Obama Designates National Monuments to Civil Rights History 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The riot embarrassed the federal government and forced it to play a bigger role in Reconstruction, which may have prevented other incidents. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z Land ownership in America, a precarious notion for both the colonists and the enslaved, took on new meaning during Reconstruction. Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it. 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z To many historians, the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday recalled a very specific history: the many white supremacist attacks on Black voting rights and legitimately elected governments during Reconstruction. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The book and movie theorized that Lincoln’s assassination resulted from a conspiracy involving Northern politicians determined to block his lenient Reconstruction policies. Charles Sellier Jr., Creator of ?Grizzly Adams,? Dies at 67 2011-02-04T05:35:12Z Our children should be made aware that we are still living with the consequences of Reconstruction. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Objects themselves compete with the visual distraction, and it is easy to pass them by, in favor of large screens showing films devoted to Reconstruction or the student civil rights movement. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The post-Civil War Reconstruction era — which saw the dramatic expansion of rights for African-Americans, followed by their violent rollback — is one of the most poorly understood periods in American history. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow,” an exhibition about Reconstruction and its aftermath at the New-York Historical Society through March 3, doesn’t draw explicit parallels to today’s politics. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In a dozen books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, he has portrayed the Union cause as a righteous enterprise. The True Story of Robert E. Lee 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z He published 16 books on sociology, history and politics, including "Black Reconstruction in America," "The Souls of Black Folk" and "The Talented Tenth." Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “To me, the better phrase is ‘vigilante antidemocratic paramilitary violence,’” Gregory P. Downs, a historian at the University of California, Davis, who studies Reconstruction said. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z While there are no overlaps with the artists in the MoMA and Guggenheim shows, the correspondences between those exhibitions and “Reconstructions” are telling. Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Reconstruction — a surreal and glorious period when Confederate veterans were barred from voting and freed slaves exercised real power in the South — was abandoned in a petty political deal over a presidential ticket. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z And the hard truth is that a man such as Atticus, born barely a decade after Reconstruction to a family of Southern gentry, would have had a complicated and tortuous history with race. The evolution of Atticus Finch 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “It will be the largest survey of black people done since Reconstruction,” she says, matter-of-factly. To this Black Lives Matter co-founder, activism begins in the kitchen 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don’t really understand its full significance.” How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Homer painted black people too, but mainly after the war, during the bitterness of Reconstruction. American Eden, After the Fall 2013-01-10T22:01:26Z Nine years after the Kerner Report, a century after Reconstruction’s abandonment, we got “Roots” — eight nights of generational magnum opus meant to inspire as much as explain. The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z About the precedents of how Black people overcame the Dred Scott decision, overcame Reconstruction, overcame Plessy v. ‘We can’t engage in the intellectual justification of discrimination,’ says lawyer representing George Floyd's family 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z But this novel is a deconstruction of Reconstruction. Susan Straight's Great American Novels: 'Fools Crow' and 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, it was stalled on Congress at the time of President Kennedy's assassination, in November 1963. Book planned in 2014 about 1964 Civil Rights Act 2011-12-12T02:43:08Z “Reconstructions” proceeds from a question: “How do we construct Blackness?” How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Its membership suddenly swelled during Reconstruction to 85 men, far more than were necessary to fight off the neighborhood’s house fires. ‘Life of a Klansman’ Tells Ugly Truths About America, Past and Present 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z His opposition to Republican Reconstruction policies did nothing to help his cause. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z In large part our limited knowledge of Reconstruction is immortalized in chilling black and white photos of lynched African Americans surrounded by grinning mobs of whites. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The first opera in the United States was staged there, and in the years between Reconstruction and Jim Crow a number of opera houses featured casts of color. Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Black elected officials moved into office around the country for the first time since Reconstruction. Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z If elected, he would become the first Black Republican governor since Reconstruction. Abortion debate has dominated this election year. Here are Tuesday’s races to watch 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Reconstructions of past climate change using geologic data have helped to show the far-reaching influence of human activity on temperatures since the Industrial Age. Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z That process was written in 1890, when white politicians across the South were enacting laws to erase Black political power gained during Reconstruction. Democrat Brandon Presley seeks big turnout in Nov. 7 bid to unseat Mississippi’s Republican governor 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Reconstructions add a layer of humanity to what otherwise might appear to be simply a heap of human bones. How scientists bring ancient faces back to life 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Reconstruction has been hindered by limited access to construction material and specialist equipment because of Israeli restrictions on "dual-use" items. Israel-Palestinian conflict: Life in the Gaza Strip 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z He is set to become the first Black Republican elected to the Legislature since Reconstruction. Mississippi Democrat Brandon Presley aims to rally Black voters in governor’s race 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z We haven't seen Americans targeting other Americans politically like this since Confederates reversed Reconstruction and used violence and threats to return to power after the Civil War. "Highly connected": How the right's political violence relates to a rise in criminal violence 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z And the historical moment it evokes is less the Civil War than Reconstruction. Opinion: Trump is running despite the 14th Amendment. He's not the first insurrectionist to do so 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Reconstruction after the Civil War had removed certain obstacles for black Americans, like Sarah, to rise to positions of power and influence. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Its roots can be traced back to slavery, the end of Reconstruction, and the Jim and Jane Crow terror regime and "separate but equal". DeSantis' weaponization of education turns deadly 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z The violation of House protocols quickly sparked outrage among Republican lawmakers, who demanded they be expelled for violating House rules — a punishment that had only been used a handful of times since Reconstruction. Rep. Gloria Johnson of ‘Tennessee Three’ officially launches 2024 Senate campaign 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z That is how it was used by the Know Nothing Party in the early 1800s, by Confederates after Reconstruction, and by Southern Democrats under Jim Crow to maintain single party dominance in eleven Southern States. "Highly connected": How the right's political violence relates to a rise in criminal violence 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Since Reconstruction a century and a half ago, radically different versions of electoral democracy have battled one another in this capital city of a Deep South state. Atlanta, crucible of democracy: How the city's tortured history got us here 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z When the Civil War ended, and Reconstruction opened up opportunities for African Americans, Loguen Fraser became one of the first Black women to earn a medical license. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Reconstruction is expected to take years and cost billions. Aerosmith singer and Maui homeowner Steven Tyler urges tourists to return to the island 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z If elected, Gines, who switched parties in December, would become one of only two Black Republicans to serve in the Mississippi House since Reconstruction. AP Election Brief | What to expect in Mississippi’s runoff primaries 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted after the Civil War during Reconstruction, disqualifies someone from holding office after taking an oath to uphold the U.S. Trump opponents bring up 14th Amendment as reason he can’t run 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The Trump team's intimidation and threats after the 2020 election distinctly echoed the violent end that white Southerners brought to Atlanta's Reconstruction starting in the late 1860s. Atlanta, crucible of democracy: How the city's tortured history got us here 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z In these post war years, the early stages of Reconstruction were marked by rapid change and a concerted effort to expand the rights of Black Americans. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z A U.S. government watchdog, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said in April that problems in P2 processing had been identified and lawmakers had required reports on processing times and staffing shortages. Afghans dreaming of U.S. refuge feel stuck in processing limbo 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z In a recent report, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a body created by Congress to oversee government spending in Afghanistan, faulted the various resettlement programs set up for Afghans. Two years after fall of Kabul, tens of thousands of Afghans languish in limbo waiting for US visas 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The Reconstruction era lasted until 1877 but is widely considered a failure by historians, in part because it neither prevented violence against Black people nor delivered lasting racial integration in politics and civil society. Trump election interference charges include Civil War-era legal rights law 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The Trump team's intimidation and threats in the weeks after the 2020 election distinctly echoed the violent end that white Southerners brought to Atlanta's Reconstruction starting in the late 1860s. Atlanta, crucible of democracy: How the city's tortured history got us here 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z By this time, the early 1880s, Reconstruction in the U.S. is on the wane, and Jim Crow is on the rise. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Smith's target letter reportedly cites statutes that were used during Reconstruction in an attempt to protect Black Americans from the Ku Klux Klan and other racial terror groups. Norman Eisen: Why Trump must face trial before the 2024 election 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Some critics of the Florida curriculum faulted a second update in the standards that says Black persons were at times perpetrators of violence during riots in the Reconstruction period and beyond. Kamala Harris enters brawl over how Florida schools teach about slavery in America 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Criminal Code, was drafted during Reconstruction to crack down on Southern Whites, including Ku Klux Klan members, from stopping formerly enslaved Black people from voting. Special counsel digs up obscure laws to build cases against Trump 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Some critics faulted a second section of the new standards that says Black persons were at times perpetrators of violence during riots in the Reconstruction period and beyond. VP Harris travels to Florida to slam update to state Black-history standards 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z That led to the state electing its first Black member of Congress since Reconstruction. Alabama rushes to adopt new congressional map amid disagreement on what district should look like 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z It was passed during Reconstruction to protect the rights of African Americans from such conspiracies by the KKK and other Southern whites. Norman Eisen: Why Trump must face trial before the 2024 election 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Since the war started, Nibulon has had a loan portfolio of $570 million with creditors including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the IFC and EIB, he said. Ukraine's wounded grain giant weathers war with Danube exports 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The new government is a coalition between Gusmao’s National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, known as CNRT, and the Democratic Party. East Timor’s independence hero Xanana Gusmao returns to power as prime minister 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Kudrytskiy estimated additional needs at about $300 million and said the company was in talks with lenders, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Ukraine to face energy deficit despite fast wartime repairs 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z In September, I sat down with Peniel Joseph, author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century” to talk about his book at an event at Town Hall Seattle. How to make the most of Juneteenth at a critical moment 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Ever since Reconstruction, especially in Southern states, there has been pervasive discrimination to keep Black Americans from registering and voting. Why the Supreme Court decision on voting rights is such a shock | Erwin Chemerinsky 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The South Carolina senator, who is the first Black Republican from the South elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, has been one of his party’s most prominent voices on matters of race. DeSantis Campaign Uses Apparently Fake Images to Attack Trump on Twitter 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Or maybe Scott, the first Black person from the South to be elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, just needs more time to build his campaign. Tim Scott is the little-known candidate Republicans might want | LZ Granderson 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the first Black senator in the South since Reconstruction, entered the contest earlier in the month. Diverse Republican presidential primary field sees an opening in 2024 with voters of color 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z In a 2014 special election to serve out the remainder of his term, Scott became the first Black candidate to win a statewide race in South Carolina since the Reconstruction era. Who is Tim Scott? 5 things to know about the newest 2024 GOP presidential candidate 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Winning a 2014 special election to serve out the remainder of his term made him the first Black candidate to win a statewide race in South Carolina since the Reconstruction era. Tim Scott set to announce launch of his 2024 GOP presidential campaign 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z After the Civil War, the United States engaged in a brief period known as Reconstruction, which lasted from 1865 to 1877. Expert: US has long history of silencing Black officials and disenfranchising their constituents 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “Along with other contemporaneous evidence, including legislative history, it helps to show that Congress meant to fully enforce the Reconstruction Amendments via a powerful new cause of action,” Professor Reinert said. 16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “Already in Berlin. Weapons. Powerful package. Air defense. Reconstruction. EU. NATO. Security,” Zelenskyy tweeted Sunday, in an apparent reference to the key priorities of his trip. Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Berlin to meet German leaders, discuss arms deliveries 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z "Republicans regained control of the House, and the Congressional Black Caucus grew to its largest numbers since Reconstruction." Rep. James Clyburn saves his South Carolina seat — at a big cost to Democrats 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z L. Douglas Wilder — the first Black man elected governor of any state since Reconstruction — to tour the damage after the tornado. Richard Stewart kept history alive. His death leaves it in jeopardy. 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z But after Tennessee politician Andrew Johnson, who had been Abraham Lincoln's running mate in 1864, took office upon Lincoln's assassination, many of those provisions of Reconstruction were reversed. Expert: US has long history of silencing Black officials and disenfranchising their constituents 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “What if the Reconstruction Congress had explicitly stated — right there in the original statutory text — that it was nullifying all common-law defenses against Section 1983 actions?” 16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Slavery is now listed as the cause of the Civil War; another change features the period after Reconstruction during which a biracial party called the Readjusters operated. Opinion | Students can suffer as adults politicize the nation’s education system 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z In 1994, the GOP took over the House and the Congressional Black Caucus reached its largest membership since Reconstruction. Rep. James Clyburn saves his South Carolina seat — at a big cost to Democrats 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Before last week, only two Tennessee House members had been expelled since Reconstruction, one based on sexual misconduct allegations and another for accepting bribes. Tennessee and Jan. 6: Behind Republicans' brazen hypocrisy, an important lesson 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z After Reconstruction and into the 1960s, Florida governors shared statewide authority with six elected Cabinet officers. How DeSantis became Florida’s most powerful governor in a generation 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Since Reconstruction, just six Black people have been elected to the Senate. Feinstein's absence puts focus on Newsom's 2020 promise to appoint a Black woman senator 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Splash Mountain, which opened in the late 1980s, is based on the 1946 movie “Song of the South,” which portrayed Black Americans during the Reconstruction era right after the Civil War. Disneyland to close Splash Mountain ride next month 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Scott became the first Black person from the South to serve in the Senate since Reconstruction. Republican Sen. Tim Scott launches presidential exploratory committee 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The policy dates to the constitution that Virginia adopted in 1902 with the stated purpose of disenfranchising Black men, who had won the right to vote during Reconstruction after the Civil War. Youngkin to meet with Democrats on felon voting rights restoration 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The fact is that before 1876, Reconstruction had already ended in nearly all the former Confederate states, where murder, violence and intimidation had delivered control to white-supremacist Democrats. Opinion | There was no corrupt bargain in the 1876 presidential election 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Up until Thursday, according to the Tennessean newspaper, the state House had only expelled two members since Reconstruction, and they had been accused of sexual misconduct and bribery, respectively. In Tennessee, expelled lawmakers remind a nation what political bravery looks like 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z On other sea islands along the South Carolina coast, formerly enslaved people were given the lands initially and then were pushed off them after Reconstruction. On U.S. Barrier Islands, African-Rooted Traditions Protect Against a Relentlessly Rising Ocean 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The plans to be endorsed next week will boost the lending capacity of the Bank for International Reconstruction and Development, its middle-income lending arm, by about 20%, the senior official said, calling that "real money." US welcomes World Bank reforms, pushes for more ambitious changes 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “And in the more than 150 years since Reconstruction began, guns have gotten only deadlier: automatic assault rifles can shoot sixty rounds per minute with enough force to liquefy organs.” At least one gun control measure upheld post-Supreme Court’s landmark ruling 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Eventually, these pledges proved false, and the demise of Reconstruction that was far advanced before the 1876 election became complete throughout the South. Opinion | There was no corrupt bargain in the 1876 presidential election 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Among the exceptions: “Engaging in insurrection or rebellion,” a provision that was codified in the 14th Amendment in the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. Trump can still run for president in 2024 after being indicted 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But that was a hard sell given Mr. Milatovic’s previous career with Deutsche Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the incumbent’s own long record of flip-flops and questionable dealings. Montenegro’s President Is Defeated in Runoff Election 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Democratic Sen. Barbara Blackmon of Canton, who is Black, compared the proposal to laws that racist white people enacted to suppress Black people after Reconstruction. Mississippi pushes more state policing in mostly Black city 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld this month Florida’s ban on 18- to 20-year-olds purchasing firearms, reasoning that laws during the Reconstruction Era restricted 18- to 20-year-olds from buying pistols. At least one gun control measure upheld post-Supreme Court’s landmark ruling 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The first American president to have his legacy tarnished by impeachment, Andrew Johnson’s woes arose from his intense feuding with Congress over Reconstruction following the Civil War. Among 160 years of presidential scandals, Trump stands alone 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The remaining games will be split between Ukrainian Embassy and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Canary Wharf. Ukraine takes on UK in solidarity chess tournament 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Guest Drew Pinsky suggested Biden was "putting a flame under" racial hate and urged schools to teach about Reconstruction, which he called "the real violence that led to this moment." Dominion lawsuit makes clear exactly how the Fox News feedback loop works 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Reconstruction of areas damaged in the civil war has largely been on hold in the absence of a political solution. UN envoy calls for renewed Syrian political talks post-quake 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Do lessons on the Civil War and Reconstruction ignore the United States’ many virtues? Perspective | Both sides in Florida African American studies debate ignore power of AP 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z In February, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development revised its forecasts for Egypt’s growth this year to 4.3%, down from its previous projection of 5%. In Egypt, government and poor struggle with troubled economy 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z A similar occurrence during Reconstruction produced a fever of lynching and racial discrimination in voting at the end of the 19th century. Opinion | This is what election protests are really about 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z It is the latest in a series of assessments by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, examining the demise of Afghan security forces and the Taliban takeover in America’s longest war. Poor U.S. planning in Afghanistan helped Taliban take over, watchdog says 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Also, in some southern states, convict leasing was essentially a new form of slavery that started during the Reconstruction Era and went on for decades. Vote to rid Nev. constitution of slavery moves to ’24 ballot 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But for Mr. Scott, the first Black Republican senator from the South since Reconstruction, race is always going to be an issue. Tim Scott Weighs 2024 Run, Selling Unity to a Party Eager for a Fight 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, mirrors assertions made by senior Pentagon and military leaders in the aftermath of the withdrawal. GOP opens another investigation of Afghanistan withdrawal 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The fight over what equal protection truly means has split the country since the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z During the Reconstruction era, we began to see the formation of historically Black colleges and universities and Black churches. Art speaks to the power of Black resistance, resilience and joy 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Oscar De Priest, a civil rights activist from Chicago and the first Black congressman elected after Reconstruction, lived in this house during three terms in the U.S. LeDroit Park house on the market for just under $2 million 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Reconstruction costs are likely to run to many billions of dollars, straining an economy already hit by 58% inflation. Analysis-Turkey's quake response could shape tough election for Erdogan 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z But it’s still fewer Black Republicans in the House than during Reconstruction, the era that followed the Civil War. State of the Union? Congress doesn’t fully reflect diversity 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The historic battles of the civil rights movement created a second era of Reconstruction. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z In 1960, he managed John Tower’s successful campaign to become the first Texas Republican senator since Reconstruction. Harry Whittington, Texas Lawyer Shot by Cheney, Dies at 95 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Of course, conservatives have never cared for liked the Reconstruction amendments, and have done everything in their power to ignore, misconstrue or hobble them. From Bush to Trump to Jan. 6: The rise and fall of "constitutional conservatism" 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Millions risk starvation and mass deaths were only averted last year through a large global outpouring of humanitarian assistance, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR, said in a new report Thursday. U.S. aid propping up repressive Taliban regime, watchdog says 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Williams is surely correct about the overthrow of Reconstruction and the role of white-supremacist violence in it. Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Decades later, the public record provided a rare view into the divide among the justices as they wrestled with the fundamental questions about race, equality and opportunity that have divided the country since Reconstruction. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z But I would say we are closer to it than I think we’ve ever been, outside of a brief period during Reconstruction when a small number of black Americans got access to land. Why '1619 Project' creator is 'proud' to have 'enemies' in Trump, DeSantis 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z There are currently no Democratic statewide officeholders — a first since Reconstruction. ‘There is no plan. There’s nothing’: Florida Democrats in despair over future 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Du Bois’s characterization of the Reconstruction era, and many of its songs address racial justice. D.C.’s hardcore punk scene gets a jolt from its originators 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z For instance, the author points to the complicity of “the rest of the nation” in the overthrow of Reconstruction and talks in very general terms of the role of “white northerners.” Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Reconstruction efforts have just begun, with only emergency repairs made since the hurricane struck. Puerto Rico pushes for private power generation amid secrecy 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z During Reconstruction, he entered politics and was elected to Louisiana’s state Senate. The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z As Williams tells it, Reconstruction has become a national myth; the new frontier the federal government had ostensibly granted freed people in the immediate postwar era remained well out of sight. The Reconstruction that wasn't: A new book aims to bust post-Civil War myths 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z During Reconstruction, Congress used its powers under the Constitution to reform the federal judiciary in a variety of ways. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z She is currently writing a book on Reconstruction. Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Chief Justice Donald Beatty, the second Black justice elected since Reconstruction, joined her in the opinion along with Justice John C. Few. South Carolina Constitution Includes Abortion Right, State Supreme Court Rules 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Regardless, both men were trailblazers during the brief promise of Reconstruction. The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z From these shards of evidence, Williams has given us an ugly widescreen view of the reign of terror that wracked the South — not during slavery or Jim Crow, but in the very thick of Reconstruction. The Reconstruction that wasn't: A new book aims to bust post-Civil War myths 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z During Reconstruction, Congress repeatedly changed the size of the Supreme Court, stripped it of jurisdiction over certain cases, and expanded its oversight over state-level abuses of power. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Even at the distance of the 21st century, the events of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a national pivot point, a moment at which a new future emerged into view. Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z They say he was a flawed leader who did what he could to protect freed slaves during Reconstruction. Ulysses S. Grant, president and general, gets a day in Ohio 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z In her 2008 autobiography she revealed an affair with the married Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the first black senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Factbox: Key facts about pioneering broadcast journalist Barbara Walters 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z In her autobiography, Walters revealed that she carried on a two-year affair in the 1970s with Edward R. Brooke, a married U.S. senator and first Black person elected to that body since Reconstruction. Barbara Walters dies at 93; news anchor broke the boy's club of network television 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Reconstruction provides an important reminder that Congress has many tools available to it to ensure that the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary upholds our whole Constitution's bedrock promises of liberty and equal justice. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Du Bois called Reconstruction “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen.” Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z That was during Reconstruction, when Congress both expanded and contracted the size of the Supreme Court, limited its jurisdiction and expanded the power of federal courts to protect citizens' rights. How to end gridlock and ensure Democratic power — with a bold progressive agenda 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Americans of the 1850s were governed by the 1789 Constitution; today we live under the Constitution forged during Reconstruction by the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Subsequently, legislators, congressmen and judges "used the lesser citizenship status of women as an obvious justification for creating different legal castes" as in the imposition of segregation after the end of Reconstruction. Jan. 6 assault reflected a deep American division: Whose democracy is it? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z In all these respects, Reconstruction provides a model for comprehensive court reform today. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Reconstruction did not fail, she insists; it was overthrown by violence. Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z To contest the radical extremism of the Supreme Court, says David Gans, "Congress should do what it did during Reconstruction ... pass landmark civil rights legislation that ensures the promise of justice for all Americans." How to end gridlock and ensure Democratic power — with a bold progressive agenda 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z It was under those conditions that A. Linwood Holton Jr., the state’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, took office in 1970 and confronted Virginia’s ugly legacy of separate and unequal educational access. Virginia Holton, Va. first lady who backed integration, dies at 97 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z As historian Peniel Joseph writes in his book "The Third Reconstruction": What we learned in Georgia: Raphael Warnock made history, Herschel Walker sent a warning 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z You write that "almost all of the court reforms being debated today have historical antecedents in the Reconstruction period." How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z She concludes: “Black Reconstruction didn’t ‘fail,’ as so many are taught. Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “You don’t achieve that with much heavier involvement of the private sector,” said Matteo Patrone, the managing director of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Kyiv. Out of the Public Eye, a Debate Is Raging Over a Postwar Ukraine Economy 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,” Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is a member of the task force, told me. A Look at What California Has Done So Far About Reparations 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Lessons, spanning 400 years, include the origins of the African diaspora, the slave trade, culture and community, resistance and abolition, Reconstruction, Black freedom movements, and contemporary debates. Teens embrace AP class featuring Black history, a subject under attack 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Court expansion during the Reconstruction era succeeded in producing a new majority on the Supreme Court disposed to uphold President Lincoln's wartime measures. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Williams is right to insist that White Southerners did not act alone, and, although understandably not her main concern here, these other factors also are important to any argument about how Reconstruction was overthrown. Review | During Reconstruction, a brutal ‘war on freedom’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z He opposed federal policies giving basic rights to Black people during the Reconstruction era and became a symbol of white supremacy to his Georgian constituents, according to Britannica. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z He drew parallels with other outdoor survival films, writing: "Here is a $130 million prestige picture that better reflects the consequences of The Revenant than it does those of Reconstruction." Emancipation: Has 'slapgate' influenced reviews of new Smith film? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z All in time to coincide with White fears of Black power during Reconstruction and help justify the crackdown on Black rights known as Jim Crow. Teens embrace AP class featuring Black history, a subject under attack 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Reconstruction also reminds us that appointments matter: Many of the justices appointed by Republican presidents during Reconstruction, tragically, played a role in burying the promise of the 14th Amendment's safeguards for liberty and equality. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z “We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,” said Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who is a member of the task force. California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z To be blunt about it, we're still overcoming the problems of slavery and Jim Crow, and how Reconstruction after the Civil War was basically destroyed. Amid right-to-work laws and anti-labor practices, a new union rises in the South 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development urged governments in its region to rethink COVID-19 support measures for companies, warning that propping up "zombie" firms could have a knock-on effect on healthy businesses. European companies are tapping bond markets again as investors return 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development urged governments in its region to rethink COVID-19 support measures for companies, warning that propping up "zombie" firms could have a knock-on effect on healthy businesses. EBRD warns of rise in 'zombie' firms if pandemic measures continue 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Reconstruction witnessed the greatest enlargement of federal jurisdiction in American history. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z The event was a gesture by the Qatar Committee for Reconstruction of Gaza, an arm of the wealthy Arabian Peninsula state’s foreign affairs ministry. In blockaded Gaza, World Cup fans watch from the sidelines 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z I said, “Reconstruction? I guess you call that the Civil War.” In Announcing 2024 Bid for Presidency, Trump Echoes Old Falsehoods 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Jackson’s ancestors were sharecroppers in Prince George’s County during the Reconstruction era, and her family’s history with horses began as they were tasked with caring for work mules and horses, she said. These Pr. George’s teens are bucking tropes and snatching championships 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has allotted $10 billion of funding for over 150 projects across Egypt, with Benban claimed as one of its major successes. In Egypt, host of COP27, a small step toward green energy 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The "legal tender" cases of the Reconstruction era illustrate that court expansion can be an incredibly powerful tool to change a hostile Supreme Court. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z His victory felt different from that of Virginia’s Doug Wilder, who in 1989 was the first African American to be elected governor since Reconstruction. Perspective | 200 years after Harriet Tubman’s birth, Md. finally gets a Black governor 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Moore will be the only Black governor in the country and the third elected since Reconstruction. Here are the candidates who made history in Tuesday’s midterms 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z That number continued to dwindle following the end of Reconstruction in the South. Historic gains for GOP following election of black candidates 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z After Tuesday’s results, there will not be a single Democrat in statewide office for the first time since Reconstruction. With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Reconstruction posed immense legal and political questions concerning the states of the former Confederacy in the wake of the Civil War. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Republicans also made gains in South Carolina, winning more than two-thirds of the House seats for the first time since at least Reconstruction. Democrats buck midterm history to win control of 4 states 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Wes Moore, a Democrat, is the first Black governor of Maryland, and only the third Black governor elected since Reconstruction. Diverse candidates make history in the midterms. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z In “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century,” historian and professor Peniel E. Joseph uses our country’s history on race and racism to help make sense of such injustices. Review | A history of American racism that helps explain present injustices 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z She said the post-Civil War Reconstruction Congress adopted the 14th and 15th Amendments to authorize civil rights laws that operate “in a race-conscious way.” Conservative justices may end affirmative action in college admissions — and beyond 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z When Congress enacted Section 1983 during Reconstruction, it consciously chose not to provide any immunities to officials who violate constitutional rights in carrying out their duties. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Walker toured the country attacking supposed communist conspiracies and civil rights, while celebrating the Southern defeat of Reconstruction, which he labeled "the tyranny within our own white race." That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The current number of three Black Republicans in Congress is the largest number to serve simultaneously since Reconstruction, when the political power and rights of Black Americans were expanded, albeit temporarily. Black Republicans are ‘no longer hiding’ as they run for Congress 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Joseph argues that, until recently, America was living through a Third Reconstruction: It dated, he argues, from the election of Barack Obama in 2008 through the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. Review | A history of American racism that helps explain present injustices 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The financing by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the bank's main lending arm, was supported by $500 million in loan guarantees from Britain that were announced on Sept. 30, the bank said. World Bank disburses additional $500 mln to Ukraine 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Why do you think Reconstruction is a more fruitful historical reference point, and why is this so little known? How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z These demographic patterns can be traced back to the Reconstruction era, the letter said, as freed Black families were able to purchase small parcels of land near plantations. EPA finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Between the years of 1873 and 1877, the end of Reconstruction, seven Black Republicans served in the House and two Black Republicans held seats in the Senate. Black Republicans are ‘no longer hiding’ as they run for Congress 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z And in the wake of our Third Reconstruction, we face the same kind of retrenchment that followed those two previous periods. Review | A history of American racism that helps explain present injustices 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “You talk about the transatlantic slave trade, you talk about Reconstruction, and people really think that it’s history,” something that happened in the distant past and has little relevance today. Daniel Smith, one of the last children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet in many respects, Reconstruction provides a more salient historical precedent. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z While neighborhood boys carried on with their stickball games in the streets of the Bronx, Mr. Kriegel embarked on a two-year stay at the New York State Reconstruction Home. Leonard Kriegel, unsparing chronicler of polio, dies at 89 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Notable examples include the end of Reconstruction and the Red Summer. Donald Trump has learned how to manipulate white rage — that's very dangerous 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z In “The Third Reconstruction,” Joseph tries to narrate our history as we live it, the better to understand the choices we make even as we make them. Review | A history of American racism that helps explain present injustices 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Suddenly confronted with the prospect that freed slaves would vote and change the outcome of elections, states in the Reconstruction South enacted voter challenge statutes. Growing GOP voter challenges have a long history of keeping down the Black vote 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z And unlike the case of FDR's court expansion plan, Reconstruction provides examples of reforms that were successfully enacted into law. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z But Florida rapidly enacted new voter suppression laws, and Walls soon lost his office as Reconstruction gave way to the era of Jim Crow. Ron DeSantis blew up Black-held congressional districts — and may have broken Florida law 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z African Americans served in Alabama’s congressional delegation following the Civil War in the period known as Reconstruction. Black representation in Alabama tested before Supreme Court 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Wallace looked at rural communities near Washington - in Maryland, Virginia and eastern West Virginia - including Sharpsburg and the community of Red Hill near Keedysville, and the impact of war and Reconstruction on how they developed. For 4.5M Americans, ugliest day signaled a step to freedom 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The reason, said Beata Javorcik, the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is that the increase in wholesale energy prices has been reflected in retail prices paid by households. Eurozone Inflation Sets Another Record, Hitting 10 Percent in September 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Even with new appointments, the Supreme Court of the Reconstruction era repeatedly gutted the 14th Amendment, turning "what was meant for bread into stone," as Justice Noah Swayne observed. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z To date, just seven — including road repairs and a basketball court — have been completed, according to data from Puerto Rico’s Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency. Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico as a Category 1 storm. Flooding still wrought havoc. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Reconstruction of the grid had barely started when Hurricane Fiona hit last Sunday. Puerto Ricans seething over lack of power days after Fiona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z This was during the time known as Reconstruction, in the years after the war. The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Since Reconstruction, voters have elected just seven Black senators and two Black governors. A record number of Black candidates for higher offices aim to reshape U.S. politics 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Southern litigants brought a slew of challenges to the Reconstruction Act, claiming that the military rule of the former Confederacy was unconstitutional. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Reconstruction has now started, she noted, but will take time because authorities want to ensure the structures being built are robust enough to withstand stronger hurricanes projected as a result of climate change. 5 years after Maria, reconstruction drags on in Puerto Rico 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Following the end of fighting, there was a continued refusal to accept the rule of law during Reconstruction, as deep racism and violence proliferated, resulting eventually in the Jim Crow era. Biden warns US democracy threatened, but how can he save it? 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The Houstons were part of a small, privileged class of Black people that flourished during Reconstruction. The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Reconstruction is painted as a time in which the "natural order" of white superiority was turned upside down. A short history of fake history: Why fighting for the truth is critical 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Jurisdiction-stripping did not rein in the Supreme Court in any lasting way, but it succeeded in preventing the court from considering the constitutionality of the Reconstruction Act. How to fix the Supreme Court: Congress has the power, and simply isn't using it 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z A rival consortium led by private equity firm Cerberus and Asset Reconstruction Company of India withdrew its bid after submitting an expression of interest earlier this year, two sources said. Yes Bank to approve J.C. Flowers as buyer for its $6 bln stressed loan portfolio 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The World Bank, European Union, Japan and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have all given Tunisia food aid loans this year. Empty shelves and rising prices test Tunisians' patience 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Especially because in the wake of the expansion of rights during Reconstruction, there was a brutal backlash. The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The view that Reconstruction was a period of terrifying "black domination," and Restoration the rightful reaffirmation of the United States as "a white man's country," was prevalent from the 1890s into the early 1960s. A short history of fake history: Why fighting for the truth is critical 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z “Reconstruction won’t be possible with a collapsing, failed state,” said Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Berlin director of the German Marshall Fund and one of the authors. How Will Ukraine Rebuild (and Who Should Pay)? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The post-Civil War Reconstruction era, where we had Southern African Americans in Congress and business owners having all kinds of success, came to a really abrupt halt with the installation of the Jim Crow era. How deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theories led America to Donald Trump 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z There is nothing new about such arguments, which trace their origins at least as far back as Reconstruction. America is finally waking up to the fascist danger: Let's hope it's not too late 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z So vigilante violence, in other words, was a continuous part of Reconstruction. The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Du Bois' 1936 "Black Reconstruction in America" — that presented a very different view of Reconstruction was brought to a wider public attention. A short history of fake history: Why fighting for the truth is critical 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Records showed that Jackson Ward was created in 1871, during Reconstruction, to keep the new voting power of Black men concentrated in one city district. Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Felony disenfranchisement, along with poll taxes, literacy tests and byzantine voter registration procedures, was among the most effective tools used by racist Southern legislators to effectively nullify the Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Both found, as a result, that truly achieving what we called “Reconstruction” and what they called a “new dispensation” is harder than most people can readily accept. Review | In post-apartheid South Africa, dashed hopes and moral struggles 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z An Australian newspaper lampooned Williams in a cartoon, depicting her with exaggerated physical characteristics strikingly similar to racist caricatures of Black people from the Reconstruction era. Serena’s example: Tennis icon’s impact felt in Black America 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Prof. Howard Rosenthal, a political scientist whose pioneering research confirmed quantitatively that Congress is more politically polarized than at any point since Reconstruction, died on July 28 at his home in San Francisco. Howard Rosenthal, Who Quantified Partisanship in Congress, Dies at 83 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Reconstruction work has begun on the bridge, where mangled concrete and iron bars hang over the river. Six months on, Ukraine fights war, faces painful aftermath 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Supporters of equality grew increasingly dismayed at Reconstruction’s failure to undo the old system, which further compounded the staggering regional and racial inequalities in the United States. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z How do you discuss the Civil War and Reconstruction? What’s Actually Being Taught in U.S. History 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z The end of Reconstruction, however, allowed White Southerners to regain control of the South’s political and legal system and institute openly discriminatory Jim Crow laws. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction noted in a May report that some 3,000 Afghan security forces, including some high-ranking officers, crossed into Iran following the Taliban takeover of Kabul. House Republicans ramp up pressure over Afghanistan exit 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z You could also say something similar about the Reconstruction Era, and then about how that passed very quickly. Beyond the right-wing panic: Why "critical race theory" actually matters 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z In the South, they used a combination of legal challenges and grassroots activism to begin dismantling the racial segregation that had stood for nearly a century following the end of Reconstruction. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Reidenbach: Reconstruction was a time period in which the federal government kept a very close eye on the South. What’s Actually Being Taught in U.S. History 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Once used fairly sparingly—apart from Andrew Johnson’s wholesale pardons of former Confederates during the Reconstruction period—the pardon power has become more visible in recent decades. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The members, led by Ohio Rep. Michael R. Turner, the panel’s ranking member, said the White House is dragging its feet on providing the information to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. House Republicans ramp up pressure over Afghanistan exit 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Who these potentially centuries-old people might have been is an open question, according to Learotha Williams, a Tennessee State University professor who specializes in African-American, Civil War and Reconstruction studies. Developer finds human remains near Nashville Civil War fort 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z African American lawyers such as Thurgood Marshall championed cases intended to destroy the Jim Crow system of segregation that had dominated the American South since Reconstruction. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Nakatsuka: I want them to understand that Reconstruction still affects us today. What’s Actually Being Taught in U.S. History 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Following the abolition of slavery and the end of Reconstruction, the former slaveholding states in the South took a number of steps to prevent formerly enslaved people and their children from voting. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z At the Founding and during Reconstruction, many constitutional rights were subject to regulation in the name of the public good. Opinion | Of course the Supreme Court needs to use history. The question is how. 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z “The situation will be darker next year,” said Sergei Guriev, professor at France’s Sciences Po and former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Russia turns to Turkey, other trading partners to blunt sanctions’ impact 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Between March 11 and March 14, auditors from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Treasury Department, and other federal agencies swept through the country, examining each bank. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Abbott: I do not say, “The Reconstruction — we didn’t get it right.” What’s Actually Being Taught in U.S. History 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z In the wake of the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson faced congressional contempt for decisions made during Reconstruction. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Some journalists have looked to America’s own past, including to the collapse of Reconstruction in the late 1800s, to contextualize how it’s possible for democratic rights to disappear in the U.S. under American institutions. American media wants to save democracy. Is it helping? 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Confederate veterans helped revive the effort several years later; by then, Reconstruction was in full swing. Two years after protests, some of Richmond’s Confederate statues remain 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Other anti-Black vigilante groups around the South began to adopt the Klan name and perpetrate acts of unspeakable violence against anyone they considered a tool of Reconstruction. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The scheme had a vague historical precedent and was rooted, at least in theory, in a post- Reconstruction Era law designed to address how to handle disputed elections. The Fake Electors Scheme, Explained 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z A possible model could be the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, a World Bank-administered fund created to get donations of foreign development assistance to Kabul, the U.S. source added. Exclusive: U.S. and Taliban make progress on Afghan reserves, but big gaps remain 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The economy is expected to shrink a startling 30 percent this year, says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, helping to spark global inflation and adding to fears of recession and job losses. The Economy Putin Didn’t Actually Ruin 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Since before Reconstruction, Black Americans have thrown off “slave names,” but I had never read or heard about White people addressing our enslaver names. Perspective | My name is a Confederate monument, so I cross it out when I write it 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Southern White people who supported Reconstruction, known as scalawags, also generated great hostility as traitors to the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Reconstruction work is still going on and scars of the devastation are clearly visible. ‘Unimaginable’: Germany, Belgium remember deadly 2021 floods 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z It is hard not to ponder the violence used to overthrow Reconstruction after the Civil War — a toxic part of our history. Opinion | We must purge our politics of Trump’s extremist poison 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z He led the effort to get Stonecrest incorporated in 2016, making it the first majority Black city created by its own residents since Reconstruction, according to a 2017 article in The Atlantic. Ex-Georgia Mayor Gets Nearly 5 Years in Prison for Stealing Covid Relief Money 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Hundreds if not thousands of people, Black and White, who supported the multiracial democracy of Reconstruction were tortured and killed. Perspective | My name is a Confederate monument, so I cross it out when I write it 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z However, the federal government faced entrenched local organizations and a White population firmly opposed to Radical Reconstruction. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Reconstruction and reconciliation were Dos Santos's main goals. Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos: The flawed 'architect of peace' 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Biden honored Fred Gray, one of the first Black members of the Alabama legislature since Reconstruction and an attorney who represented civil rights activists such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Biden honors 17 people with Presidential Medal of Freedom 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It will also include international organisations like the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank. European Union to set up platform for Ukrainian reconstruction 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z "We have led on support for Ukraine during the war and will continue to lead in supporting the Ukrainian Government’s Reconstruction and Development Plan," Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement. UK to host 2023 Ukraine recovery conference 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z By April of that year, radical Reconstruction ended as promised, with the removal of federal troops from the final two Reconstruction states, South Carolina and Louisiana. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Taking advantage of the Democratic Party’s divisions over civil rights, the former general tallied the second-largest number of electoral votes by a Republican in the South since Reconstruction. Review | The transformative 1960s still have a grip on America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Cassanello, who teaches classes in civil rights movements, Jim Crow America, and emancipation and Reconstruction argued that the law “restricts his ability to accurately and fully teach these subjects.” In Florida, DeSantis’s plans for colleges rattle some academics 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Gray was one of the first Black members of the Alabama Legislature after Reconstruction. Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The American Civil Liberties Union has contested bills — including the House-passed Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act — that would make the seizure of Russian assets easier for the government. $30B from Russian oligarchs frozen under REPO seizure effort 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Democrats were largely satisfied to end Reconstruction and maintain “home rule” in the South in exchange for control over the White House. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The American Civil Liberties Union has contested bills — including the House-passed Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act — that would make seizure of Russian assets easier for the government. $30B from Russian oligarchs frozen under REPO seizure effort 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The Reconstruction Congress enacted the 14th Amendment to require states to follow the Bill of Rights. Opinion | The Supreme Court’s gun ruling was a victory over racist policing 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Bruen case, waxed philosophical about how the right to bear arms was crucial for the self-protection of Black people in the South during Reconstruction. Column: Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z President Andrew Johnson, an opponent of Black enfranchisement, vetoed the bill, but both houses of Congress overrode him by large margins during the height of Reconstruction. D.C. elected its own mayors in the 1800s — until Congress stepped in 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z During the time of Reconstruction, the U.S. government showed no significant initiative in foreign affairs. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He mentioned the violence of the Ku Klux Klan and the white “murder mobs” that flared in cities like New Orleans and Vicksburg, Miss., during Reconstruction. ‘He Took Jan. 6 Personally’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The resolution, which was referred to the House Government Reform and Oversight committee, would also aim to posthumously recognize lawmakers who served during and after Reconstruction, including Benjamin S. Turner and Joseph Rainey. Rep. Al Green makes push for National Slavery Remembrance Day 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Brown, a former state legislator, in 1992 was one of the first three Blacks elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. Convicted Florida ex-congresswoman seeks return to House 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “In Egypt more than half of the population is eligible for subsidized bread,” said Beata Javorcik, chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Global Growth Will Be Choked Amid Inflation and War, World Bank Says 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z This was the first time since the end of Reconstruction that federal troops once more protected the rights of African Americans in the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The assessment by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, examined allegations that Afghan government officials took tens of millions of dollars with them as they fled the country. Millions of dollars went missing as Afghanistan fell, watchdog says 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z It took decades of violence and fraud — including assassinations, massacres and rigged elections — for the reactionary opposition to Reconstruction to succeed. Opinion | The Expansion of Democracy Is What Republican Elites Fear Most 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Last month, the House passed the bipartisan Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act that would allow the properties of sanctioned Russian oligarchs and companies to be liquidated, with the proceeds given to Ukraine. Seizing Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Sets Off White House Debate 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The triumph of Southern-inflected conservatism came first with the dismantling of Reconstruction in 1877, leading to the Jim Crow era of white supremacy. Opinion | The gun debate is paralyzed by our past 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The northern Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction looked to overturn southern society and specifically aimed at ending the plantation system. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It was a reaction to the possibility of a true multiracial movement that potentially leads to a multiracial democracy the likes of which we had not seen in the United States since Reconstruction. Eric Holder: Democracy is worth saving — and justice is coming for Donald Trump 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation plan to provide an additional $3.4 billion to Ukrainian state-owned enterprises and the private sector. G7 nations pledge $20 billion to Ukraine. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z As he often does, Garland reminded his audience that the Justice Department was founded in 1870, during Reconstruction, with the primary charge to protect Black Americans from the Ku Klux Klan and other white-supremacist groups. Biden’s Justice Dept. pressed for strong response to Buffalo massacre 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Rep. Corrine Brown, one of the first Black representatives elected to Congress from Florida after Reconstruction, ended Wednesday with her guilty plea to a tax charge in a charity fraud case. Former US Rep. Corrine Brown pleads guilty in fraud case 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Tennessee was not included in the Reconstruction Acts as it had already been readmitted to the Union at the time of their passage. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The latest assessment by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, examined the roots of the Afghan military’s demise at the end of America’s longest war. U.S. watchdog details collapse of Afghan security forces 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z In 1992, after a state legislative career, she became one of the first three Black people elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. Former US Rep. Corrine Brown to plead guilty in fraud case 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z North Africa, where food inflation was a contributor to the Arab Spring revolts a decade ago, looked particularly vulnerable, said Beata Javorcic, chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Analysis: Food inflation pain puts emerging markets between rock and hard place 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development last week committed 1 billion euros this year for the Ukrainian economy, set to be a mix of donor funds and bank funding. Yellen meets war refugees in Poland, pushes food crisis plan 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Though Grant did not side with the Radical Republicans, his victory allowed the continuance of the Radical Reconstruction program. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z We see it in our history as well; before Jim Crow, there was the decades-long effort to erode the already tenuous political standing of Black Americans in the aftermath of Reconstruction. Opinion | The Pro-Democracy Argument Against Roe Falters When It Meets Reality 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Reconstruction should begin now in Ukraine, even as the war continues. Opinion | The time is now to plan for the aftermath of war in Ukraine 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The district is represented by Al Lawson, a Democrat who in 2016 became the first Black person since Reconstruction to represent most of those counties. Judge blocks map favored by DeSantis 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Ukraine’s economy is expected to shrink 30 percent this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Tuesday, worsening its forecast from just two months ago, when it predicted a 20 percent shrinkage. Ukraine War’s Geographic Reality: Russia Has Seized Much of the East 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In the winter of 1869, Republicans introduced another constitutional amendment, the third of the Reconstruction era. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z |
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