SALT LAKE CITY — Breast Cancer Awareness Month is just around the corner, and Intermountain Health is preparing for an event that not only celebrates survivors but also raises awareness about breast ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that ...

Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American history. Versions of the era like the early motion picture Birth of a Nation (1915) and the novel Gone With the Wind (1936) -- ...

Along the unbroken chain of racism that links America’s past to its present, there have been two points when the federal government—otherwise complicit or complacent—saw the mistreatment of African ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lincoln Caplan THE SECOND FOUNDING How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution ...