The economy was built on the forced labor of enslaved Africans, ... What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down. April 4, 2019.

West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War By Heather Cox Richardson Yale University Press, 396 pages, $30 A striking photograph reproduced in Heather Cox Richardson&#8… ...

Roger Lowenstein’s new book, Ways and Means, provides one answer.Offering a highly readable account of how Abraham Lincoln’s government financed the Union’s efforts during the Civil War, it ...

The Freedman’s Bank aimed to give those emancipated from slavery a place in the post-Civil War economy. It was badly mismanaged and eventually failed. Skip to Main Content.

Eric Foner On Post-Civil War Disappointments Eric Foner, author of Our Lincoln, talks about the era following the Civil War in which former slaves were promised equal rights and citizenship.Foner ...

This is attributed to the economic racial divide that was kicked off after the Civil War, Darity says, when Black Americans who were formerly enslaved were promised 40 acres of land and a mule.

The era in United States history known as Reconstruction forms a sort of coda to the traumatic years of the American Civil War of 1861-1865. It also the ugly duckling of American history.

The world of post-Civil War banking gives researchers a "great window" into the rapid growth of the U.S. economy and key political debates, Calomiris said. Given how fragmented the banking system was ...

As the American Civil War came to an end in April 1865, Columbus was pleased with the victory but exhausted by the effort it took to achieve that victory. The city of 18,000 people became a mobili… ...

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 ...