Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece of Reconstruction legislation. It outlaws racial discrimination in public accommodations -- hotels, transportation, opera houses ...

Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...

President Trump’s national energy emergency declaration does not qualify as an emergency that would exempt energy projects ...

H.R. 469 - Comprehensive Breast Reconstruction Act of 2021; bill provides for Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance coverage of certain tattooing services in connection with post-mastectomy ...

Former Mississippi Rep. Robert Clark Jr. lay in state Sunday in the Capitol Rotunda as family, friends, officials and fellow ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Lebanon's reconstruction and recovery needs following the conflict with Israel are estimated at $11 billion ...