Browse these pro- and anti-Grant political cartoons, spanning his military and political careers, and investigate the range of popular opinions about Grant and the major issues of his time.
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.
The Colored Advisory Commission's second report revealed that the government relief effort had made little progress in helping African Americans in the flooded areas.
They called it "a campaign that may have no parallel since the days of Reconstruction." In 1964, more than 700 civil rights workers focused their efforts on Mississippi.Â
Explore the lives and legacies of three African American ambassadors who broke racial barriers to reach high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and left a lasting impact on the Foreign Service.
Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, former friends turned competing paleontologists, began scouring the American West for prehistoric fossil deposits in the hopes of discovering unknown species from the past.
The Ku Klux Klan was organized after the Civil War by a small group of men aiming to form a brotherhood during the time of Reconstruction in the 1860s.
In the last half of the 19th century, America underwent a series of changes. James Garfield's election brought hope to Americans of all backgrounds.
