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Read the veto messages of President Andrew Johnson, who tried to block Reconstruction after taking over for the assassinated Abraham Lincoln, and you might mistake them for words written 150 years ...

The radical faction was hostile to the more measured approach of President Andrew Johnson, who insisted that the process of reconstruction must be constitutional. The problem, as the Radicals saw it, ...

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park is a new unit of the National Park System that includes places that illustrate nationally important stories of the Reconstruction Era in Beaufort County ...

President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 but was overruled by Congress. In recent years, the law has been co-opted by conservative activists fighting to eradicate diversity ...

As recounted in Eric Foner’s landmark 1988 book, "Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877," the backlash by southerners to Reconstruction policies was immediate.

More: Ohio Constitution allows slavery as a penalty for crime. Lawmakers want to change that The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) gave Black men the vote. When the former Confederate states began to ...