Mercy Street reminds viewers that the advances of the Civil War era—freedom for African Americans, enhanced opportunities for women, and medical advances for doctors, nurses, and their patients ...

Christopher Tounsel, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the African nation’s yearslong civil war could ...

He noted the backlash after Reconstruction, a period after the Civil War where newly freed enslaved people became politically ...

He noted the backlash after Reconstruction, a period after the Civil War where newly freed enslaved people became politically involved only to later face nearly a century of racial violence.