LBJ identifies a seven-part legislative program for his cabinet and federal government agencies.
Civil War and Reconstruction had a distinct economic impact on each state in the nation. See what happened state by state.
Read a July 6, 1969 excerpt from The New York Daily News.
"She would not be moved."
In 1964 doctors and nurses from the North volunteered with black doctors in the South to form the medical arm of the civil rights movement.
After surviving his failed siege of the armory at Harpers Ferry, John Brown went on trial.
Historians review some myths and misconceptions about the Reconstruction era.
Historians describe the violent conditions that prevailed in the South.
Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War.
Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war.
Northern missionaries open schools in the South — and freed slaves rejoice in the opportunity to be educated. The South's new, racially integrated legislatures create the region's first public schools — for blacks and for whites.
Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction.
