From 1870 to 1872, thanks to the influence of Chloe Merrick Reed, the number of public schools students increased from 7,500 ...
Dismantling the civil service isn’t just a tactic. It’s a necessity for their efforts to entrench white racial and economic ...
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
Have your dreams felt more active than usual? Your visions for the future both vivid and surreal? There’s an astrological ...
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...
This was the post-war Reconstruction era ... and they became central to her life’s mission. In 1863, she led the Combahee Ferry Raid and rescued hundreds of enslaved people—making her the ...
“This is the height of antimonopoly, political turmoil, the rise of labor in the United States,” said White, author of “The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction ... t ...
Camp Saxton, which was home to the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, is part of the Reconstruction Era National Park today. On Jan. 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was read to the men ...