Their children continued their work for African American rights. One family is the subject of a Pittsburgh exhibit this month.

Joseph Nourse, known as America’s first civil servant, played a pivotal role in shaping the early federal government. His decades of service, dramatic removal by President Jackson, and eventual ...

Driving through Millican today, you’d never know it made national headlines 158 years ago. And as tensions rose after the Civil War, violence broke out.

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, examines how the backlash to Reconstruction echoes in today’s arguments over race and citizenship ...