For more than four million African Americans living in the Southern United States, the end of the Civil War (1861–65) brought the freedom they had hoped for during all the long years of slavery. Ever since the arrival of the first white...

Enacted by U.S. Congress, March 2, 1867 Reprinted on About Texas: Texas State Library and Archives Commission (Web site) Congress devises a plan for remaking Southern society "No legal State governments or adequate protection for life or...

Nearly three years after the end of the Civil War, as part of the on-going process of Reconstruction, the United States Congress passed four statutes known as Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867 (39 Cong. Ch. 153; 14 Stat. 428), March 23, 1867 (40 Cong....

Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush issued an executive order suspending the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act as it applies to reconstruction efforts in the Gulf Coast region. This permits federal contractors in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi to pay below the prevailing wage. ...

Romancers in the dark: Strangers couple, redouble, forget RECONSTRUCTION Directed by Christoffer Boe Palm, opens September 10, Angelika Set most emphatically in the House of Fiction, Danish director Christoffer Boe's debut feature Reconstruction (winner of the Camera d'Or at the...