It’s the first and only museum in the state that focuses on reconstruction after the civil war. A non-profit has worked over ...

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When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada ...

For example, a memorial honoring Robert Smalls, the enslaved Civil War hero who famously sailed a Confederate vessel out of Charleston Harbor and turned it over to the Union navy, and later served ...

The Reconstruction period refers to the post-Civil War years between 1865 and 1877 when the federal government took uniquely aggressive efforts to repair the divided nation, and to establish and ...

The center is at the site of the Fayetteville Arsenal, an important part of the state’s Civil War history. The center’s main building will span 55,000 to 57,000 square feet and will replace ...

Reconstruction sought not only to restore the Union after the Civil War, but also to build guardrails against such an authoritarian faction ever again being able to subvert the Republic.