March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...
Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution in ...
Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war. "This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as ...
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On March 11, the Supreme Court Historical Society presented the first installment of this year’s Leon Silverman Lecture Series. In acknowledgment of the 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender ...
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A woman leading a dog cart with vegetables, a man and a woman towing a barge along a canal in the Dutch countryside, with windmills in the background, Netherlands, engraving from The Graphic, 1879.
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 3, 2015) -- This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Army's first, large-scale occupation duty, following the end of the Confederacy. To ...
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