Stephanie McCurry

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

To finance the war, the Union had to turn to the banks, and with lasting consequences.

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

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

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

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