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January

Death, Trials & Secret Empires: What 1866 America Feared Most (Plus Chicago's...

1866: Garrison Hangs Up His Pen as the South Begins Its Painful Reconstruction

A Chilean naval victory thrills a war-weary world—plus planter corruption and...

A Powder Mill Explosion & Silk Dreams: How Connecticut Built America's First...

Four Fires, an Emperor's Pleas, and the Woman Emigrant Scheme: January 5, 1866

Congress Fights Over Freedmen While Landlords Kill Tenants & Fenians Stockpile...

Theater Riot, Railroad Monopolies & Fenian Trials: The Day Reconstruction...

The Treasury's Secret Plan to Fix America's Inflation Crisis—Plus a Race Riot...

Ghosts in Exile: Why Congress Just Locked Down the South (Jan. 9, 1866)

Nine Months After Appomattox: Congress Uncovers a Horrifying New Slave Trade

Five Months After Appomattox: Baltimore Navigates Love, Voting Rights & Ice in...

Ten Months After Appomattox: Congress Feuds While Maryland Pays Slave...

When California Papers Defended the South (and cited the Jamaica Massacre to...

One Month After Lee's Surrender: Assassins' Reward Money, Frozen Rivers, and a...

Eight Months After Appomattox: Northern Settlers Are Fleeing the South in...

Congress Fears Slavery's Return | New Orleans Daily Crescent, Jan. 16, 1866

"Persecution Worse Than War": Reconstruction's Dark Turn, Just 8 Months After...

Six Months After Appomattox: Congress & Johnson Face Off Over the South's...

Widows, Orphans & Debts: What Maine's Probate Courts Reveal About Life After...

A Serial Killer in Church Clothes: The Execution of the 'Modern Borgia' &...

Sheridan vs. Early: The Civil War's History Wars Begin (And the South Wins)

Eight Months After Lee's Surrender: A Treasury Secretary, a Poisoner, and...

The South's Political Nightmare: Congress Just Invented a Vote-Based Amendment...

Inside Johnson's Secret Meeting on Black Suffrage (Jan. 24, 1866)

Congress Decides Freedom's Fate: The Freedmen's Bureau Fight Begins, 1866

Murder, Intrigue & Grant's Secret Wedding Speech: A Nation Still Bleeding (Jan....

Congress Splits on Reconstruction While A Railroad Refuses to Seat Native...

Nashville, January 1866: A City Rebuilding (and Selling Andrew Johnson's...

Baltimore's Postwar Puzzle: When 12-Year-Olds Committed $3,000 Mail Fraud &...

Mississippi, January 1866: When Federal Power Met Southern Rage—and How...

Reconstruction's Fever Dream: Congress Rewrites the Constitution as...

February

Congress Just Laid a Constitutional Trap for the South—And Sewing Machines...

Shipping Disasters & Congressional Citizenship: Baltimore Reads the Post-War...

Hawaii's First Steamship: How a $1 Million Giant Ship Nearly Changed Everything...

Congress Splits Over the Future of 4 Million Freedmen—Grant Cracks Down on...

Steamboat Slaughter and Rebel Senators: New Orleans One Year After the War

Eight Months After Appomattox: Congress Battles Over Reconstruction While the...

225 Dead on the Arkansas River: How America's Worst Steamboat Disasters Exposed...

One Year After Lincoln: How Baltimore Wrestled with Reconstruction (Feb. 8,...

One Year After the War: Congress Opens Southern Land to All—And a Colored...

Sugar Boom and Steam Ships: Inside Hawaii's Economic Explosion in 1866

Mississippi Reels From Reconstruction: A Newspaper Pleads for Restraint (While...

Congress Bets on Land for Freedmen—and the South Revolts (February 1866)

Lincoln Commemorated as Nation Grapples with Reconstruction's Violence—Feb. 13,...

Feb 14, 1866: Rothschilds Plot Against America & Other Valentine's Day News

1866: When Ohio's 8-Hour Workday Was Revolutionary—and Steamboat Disasters Cost...

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Grant's Bold Gamble on Reconstruction (Feb. 16,...

1866: 'Pay Day Must Come'—A Prophet Warns Post-War America About Financial...

An Emperor in Freefall: How Maximilian's Mexico Ran Out of Money (and Time)

Grant Orders Newspapers Suppressed & A $40,000 Daylight Heist Shocks St. Louis...

How Louisiana Tried to Charm President Johnson (and Failed): Inside the...

When Maine Rebuilt Itself: The Bustling Business Pages of 1866

One Year After Appomattox: Louisiana Pleads With Johnson as Congress Prepares...

Love Notes & Lawsuits: New Orleans Courts Overflow One Year After the War

When Hawaii Feared a Killer Comet (And Laughed About It): A Pacific Island...

Nashville Rising From Ashes: How One Southern City Advertised Itself Back to...

One Family Burned to Death, One Nation Tearing Apart Over Freedom: Baltimore,...

While Louisiana's Congress Debated War Relief, the Greatest Circus on Earth...

"We Are Living in a State of Siege": How One Union Leader Turned on President...

March

The Circus Comes Back to New Orleans: One Year After the War, Entertainment...

Grant Gets His Nomination, Douglass Escapes Assassination, and America's Debt...

Congress Bypasses Johnson on Reconstruction—And Arson Erupts in New York (March...

Congress at War Over the South's Return: Can a Broken Union Be Mended? (March...

One Year After the War Ends, America's Real Battle Begins—And a Governor Just...

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Tears Itself Apart Over How to Rebuild the...

British Hypocrisy Exposed: When Civil War Enemies Got Their Just Deserts (March...

Irish Conspirators Arrested, Deadly Pork Parasite Exposed, Congress Debates...

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Congress Declares War on Johnson's...

1866: California's Gold Rush Towns Debate Freedmen's Rights While Mining Booms...

"The Union Can Never Be Dissolved"—A General's Fiery Defense of Johnson Against...

One Year After Appomattox: A Union Officer's Brutal Testimony on the...

Canada Mobilizes Against Irish Raiders—and Baltimore's Commercial Life Booms On...

Colorado Loses Statehood Fight, Sherman Gets a $30K House Gift, and Quantrill...

One Year After Appomattox: Louisiana Fights Over Taxes, Freedmen, and Who Gets...

Congress Fights Over Reconstruction While Baltimore Sells Champagne & Hair Dye...

One Year After Lee's Surrender, the South Is Turning Violent—And Johnson Is...

The Day America's Irish Veterans Almost Invaded Canada: A Tense March 17, 1866

When Irish-American Veterans Threatened to Invade Canada: The Fenian Crisis of...

One Year After Appomattox: How Baltimore Newspapers Captured a Nation Stumbling...

One Year After Appomattox: Why Johnson Blocked a Confederate Mayor From Taking...

One Year After Appomattox: War Crimes Trials, Gold Rushes, and Reconstruction...

He Called Thaddeus Stevens the Devil's Agent: Inside the Speech That Split...

Congress Passes Debt Bill by 10 Votes as Johnson Prepares to Block Civil Rights...

One Year After Appomattox: A Mississippi Town Learns to Rebuild Without Slavery

President Johnson's Veto Is Coming—and Violence Against Freedmen Is Exploding

One Year After Appomattox: America Racing to Build, Still Bleeding—What...

March 1866: Johnson Vetoes Civil Rights, Lee Testifies, and a Princess Sends a...

One Week After Lincoln: Congress Fractures Over Civil Rights, a Senator Dies,...

Senator Foot's Last Words, Bank Panics, and 4,000 Irish Heading to...

Navy Ironclad vs. Irish Invaders: The Secret War America Wasn't Talking About...

April

Just 5 Days After Lincoln's Death: Inside a Nation Convulsing Over Justice,...

One Year After Appomattox: America Tears Itself Apart Over What Freedom Means

The War's Really Over? Not According to This Chicago Tribune Editorial From 1866

One Year After Lee's Surrender: How Baltimore's Insurance Boom Reveals a City...

Freshet, Amnesty, and the Color Line: America's Reconstruction Chaos, April 5,...

One Year After Appomattox: How America Was Already Moving On (April 1866)

Congress Defies Johnson: Civil Rights Bill Passes Over Veto as Reconstruction...

One Year After Appomattox: The Chicago Tribune Captures a Nation Divided on...

April 1866: How Baltimore Sold the Future—One Ad at a Time

Congress Defeats Lincoln's Successor—And General Grant Gets a Speeding Ticket...

Maryland, 1866: Congress Defies Johnson Over Civil Rights as Nation Rebuilds

One Week After Lee Surrendered, Baltimore Papers Were Already Watching Germany...

One Week After Lee Surrendered, Congress Overrides Johnson's Veto—And America's...

The Day After Lincoln: Fenians Massing on the Border, Davis About to Stand Trial

100 Years Ago: Irish Rebels Massed on the Border—and Nobody Could Find Their...

One Year After Lincoln: Congress Rewrites the Constitution While the South Burns

Reconstruction Erupts in Congress—Senators Trade Blows One Year After Appomattox

Victory Celebrations and Chinese Tea Ships: Baltimore Cheers Civil Rights as...

Chaos at Sea, Chaos in Congress: The Day America Nearly Split Apart (Again)

Eight Dead in Fiery Mystery: The Wells Fargo Explosion That Left San Francisco...

April 1866: How America Shielded War Crimes, Lost Oil Tanks to Mob Fire, and...

One Year After Appomattox: How a Cholera Outbreak & Political Crisis Reveal...

One Year After Appomattox: Murder, Loyalty Oaths, and the Wild West of...

One Year After Appomattox: Cholera, Congress Deadlock, and River Pirates—April...

Cholera, Rails, and Gold Rushes: America's Messy Reconstruction, April 1866

Cholera, Vigilante Justice, and Nitroglycerin in Court: What America Looked...

One Year After Appomattox: Vigilantes, Carpetbaggers, and Why McCulloch's...

The Northern Pacific Derailed, Tennessee Expels Rebels, and a Steam Boiler...

Congress Agrees on Reconstruction Plan While the South Descends Into Murder:...

One Year After Appomattox: How Baltimore Sold Hair Dye Instead of War (April...

May

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Rewrites America's Constitution—And Europe...

Spain Destroys Valparaiso While Congress Remakes Reconstruction: May 2, 1866

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Rejects Johnson's Allies & Kills Army...

One Year After Appomattox: New Orleans Still Refuses to Call It Rebellion

Congress Rewrites America's Constitution—And a Poker Thief Gets Caught...

One Year After Appomattox: How Jackson's Merchants Quietly Rebuilt the South...

May 1866: When One Box of Pills Could Cure Four Years of Misery (Plus Why a...

One Year After Appomattox: Telegraph to China, Parliamentary Chaos in London,...

One Year After Appomattox: How New Orleans Voted Its Way Back—and Bet on Oil

Judge Abell Strikes Down the Civil Rights Act: How One New Orleans Ruling...

Reconstruction Votes, Russian Spies, and the Patent Medicine Wars: Baltimore,...

Massacre of the Loyalists: How Texas Hunted Down 63 German-Americans Trying to...

The Freedmen's Bureau's Dark Secret: How Agents Exploited Those They Swore to...

Why Stanton Won't Answer Congress About Lincoln's Real Killer (Chicago Tribune,...

100 Hours to New York: How New Orleans Raced to Rejoin America (via Railroad)

Davis Goes to Trial (Maybe): How Washington Is Rewriting the Rules of War

1866: Vienna Suicide Epidemic, Cuban Revolution Brewing, and 'Extra Billy's'...

One Year After Lee's Surrender: The South's Churches Voluntarily Rejoin the...

One Year After Lee's Surrender, Republicans Fear Their Civil War Victory Is...

Lost Children, Stolen Horses, Forged Checks: The Desperate Side of 1866 New York

One Year After Appomattox: How Baltimore's May 1866 Paper Reveals a Nation...

One Year After Appomattox: When London's Banks Crashed and America Sold Snake...

One Year After Appomattox: How America's Freedmen, Spanish Warships, and...

A Woman Poisoned, A City in Chaos: Inside the Arsenic Trial Gripping 1866 New...

Congress Debates America's Future While Maximilian Falls in Mexico: What May...

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Freedmen Are Still Being Sold Into Slavery—And...

War Is Coming to Europe—and America Is Watching (May 27, 1866)

The Serenade That Backfired: How a White House Party Split Johnson's Cabinet...

Oil City Engulfed: A Million-Dollar Fire & Congress Fights Over Reconstruction

One Year After Appomattox: New Orleans Rebuilds Street by Street—and the Chaos...

Federal General Indicted for 'Kidnapping'—and the Academy of Music Burns: May...

June

General Longstreet's Insurance Company & the Ough Debate: New Orleans Rebuilds...

One Year After the War Ends, California Dreams of Railroads—and Auburn Grieves...

Irish-American Soldiers Storm Canada—U.S. Caught in the Middle (June 3, 1866)

General O'Neill's Army Flees Fort Erie: Inside the Failed Fenian Invasion of...

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Fights Over Confederate Honor While France...

Congress Debates Reconstruction While Pelicans Die & Men Eat 25 Eggs: The...

Johnson Issues War Warning: Irish-American Fenians Massing on Canadian...

Invasion! Irish-Americans Swarm the Canadian Border—and America's Civil War...

The Day the Fenian Dream Died: How Irish-American Civil War Veterans Lost Their...

A White Southern Editor's Venomous 1866 Fantasy: What Bill Arp's 'Congressional...

Canada Hangs Fenians on U.S. Soil: The Invasion That Changed Everything

Fistfights, Fires & Freed Slaves: New Orleans One Year After the War

One Year After: New Orleans Rebuilds Its Schools, Courts, and Soul (1866)

Congress Passes the 14th Amendment: The Vote That Changed America (120-32)

1866: One Year After the Civil War, the North Confronts Its Own Slavery Secrets

A Pillar of Fire 1,000 Feet High: Hawaii's Mauna Loa Eruption Wows the World...

The Great Powers Abandon Peace: Austria Walks Out on Europe's Last Diplomatic...

One Year After Appomattox: Republicans Rally in Maine—and Merchants Sell...

War Erupts in Europe as Prussia Marches Into Holstein—Congress Debates...

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Bets the Nation on Railroads—While the...

Fire, Blood, and Bail: New Orleans on the Knife's Edge of Reconstruction (June...

1866: When America Argued Over Everything—Coal Veins, Pensions for Black...

Johnson Vetoes the 14th Amendment (Again) — And a Thief Steals $1,500 in Broad...

Should She Marry Him? A Jilted Woman Seeks Advice in 1866 New York

100 Years Ago Today: Portland's Lost Letters & Real Estate Fire Sale (June 1866)

Civil War Just Ended—Now Europe Is Falling Apart (And Ohio's Sheep Are Dying)

Should Arizona Grow Opium? A Visionary's Pitch to Break Britain's Trade...

Chaos in New Orleans: One Year After the War, a State Tears Itself Apart Over...

Congress Rebuilds America (and Canada Fears Invasion): June 29, 1866

When an Heiress Lost Everything: A Gold Rush Love Story (and Why Shasta's...

July

Democrats Accused of Treason, General Grant's Army Reshuffled: Reconstruction...

The $62,000 Man: Worcester's 1865 Income Tax Reveals a City of Millionaires...

Portland Goes HUGE for the First Postwar Fourth of July—20,000 Cubic Feet of...

Inside Reconstruction New Orleans: A Shocking Inspection of the City's Broken...

A Mississippi Town Reopens for Business: How the South Rebuilt in 1866

A Maine Weekly Grapples With Morality & Class (1866): Can a Rich Man's Son Be...

1866: A California Paper's Savage Attack on Tennessee's Radical Governor—and...

The South's Newspaper Defends Johnson Against Congress—And Accuses Yankees of...

Andrew Johnson's White House Goes Silent on the Fourth of July—and Congress...

Mexico's Turning Point: Liberals Rout French Imperialists Near Camargo, Seize...

Arizona's 1866 Declaration: How a Territorial Speech Rewrote Frontier...

How New Orleans Dreamed of Turning Swampland into Paradise—1866

Assault, Federal Courts & Freedom: Inside a Reconstruction-Era Legal Battle...

A Union General's Fiery Cry Against Reconstruction: Why He Said Federal Rights...

Rebuilt & Ready: How Mississippi's Merchants Bounced Back in 1866

Inside Washington's Reconstruction Civil War: When Hisses Erupted Over a Gold...

Austria's Empire Collapses in Days: Sudowa Changes Europe Forever—July 1866

Tennessee Ignores Federal Courts, Anti-Rent Mobs Storm Albany, Garibaldi...

When Congress Got So Toxic That Conservatives Called for a Convention: Iowa's...

Pennsylvania Court Rules on Deserters' Voting Rights (1866): How a Single...

One Year After Appomattox: How the South Was Already Rewriting the Civil War

New Orleans, 1866: When a Patent Medicine Ad Took Over the Front Page—And What...

The Ocean Cable is Done—and a Major European Power Just Lost a War

Tennessee Returns: Congress Celebrates Readmission While Johnson Sulks (July...

One Year After Appomattox: A Kansas Paper's Fractured America, a Murdered...

33-Car Train Carries 2,000 to Massive Anti-Radical Rally in Reading—Inside the...

Davis Accused of Lincoln's Murder: Congress Tightens Screws on the South (July...

Congress Raises Its Own Pay, Jefferson Davis's Fate Looms, and a Treasury...

One Year After Emancipation: How New Orleans Newspapers Tried to Explain Their...

100 Dead in New Orleans, Cables Connect America to Europe, and Railroads Race...

August

Blood & Light: The Day America Split Over Black Rights—And Connected to Europe...

A Year After the War Ended, America's Leaders Were Warning of Another Rebellion...

When a Raw Ham Killed a Family: The 1866 Trichiniasis Outbreak That Changed...

Steamboat Explodes in Fiery Racing Disaster; 15 Dead—and Cholera Ravages the...

A Union Still Bleeding: Election Violence, War in Europe, and Cholera Hit the...

One Year After Appomattox: Western Forts Burning, Eastern Conventions Feuding,...

"The Republican Party Must Die": A California Paper Reprints the Bombshell...

Secret Militia Orders and Freed People's Fury: America Fractures Over...

The Riot That Shook New Orleans: Inside the Grand Jury's Report on the July...

Angry German Verses & Desperate Veterans: What One Pa. Newspaper Reveals About...

The Philadelphia Convention Implodes Over Vallandigham—and Europe's Empires Are...

Philadelphia, 1866: When the North Cheered a Copperhead & Almost Undid the...

The Convention Where Republicans Literally Silenced Debate—And Lost Control of...

Cholera, Fenian Invasions & Murdered Freedmen: America's Chaotic Summer of 1866

When President Johnson Met His Supporters—and General Grant Showed Up to Watch

An Irish Rebel Became a Confederate Hero—New Orleans Gives Him an Hour-Long...

President Johnson Defends His Reconstruction Plan in Buffalo—One Month Before...

1866: Armed Fenians, Cholera Deaths, and Patent Medicine Promises—America's...

A One-Armed Farmer's Rage: What a Forgotten 1866 Newspaper Reveals About...

How Grant Got Trapped at the White House—and Why New Orleans Unionists Are...

ONE YEAR AFTER APPOMATTOX: Republicans Plan Second Civil War? (1866 Auburn,...

Dancing Past the Plague: New Orleans in August 1866

When New Orleans Trusted Sarsaparilla Over Doctors: A Reconstruction Reckoning

Andrew Johnson's Funeral Tour Turns into a Political Disaster—And the Tribune...

President Johnson's Last Victory Lap: Why This August 1866 Tour Was His Final...

September

Johnson Defends His Vision for America—While Mobs Attack Black Worshippers in...

Cholera, Reconstruction Violence & a Cable That Would Change the World — Sept....

Gunshots and Gamblers: New Orleans in Chaos, September 4, 1866

When America's President Was Booed: Inside Johnson's Disastrous 1866 Tour

1866: A Kansas Paper Celebrates the Atlantic Cable—and Trolls Irish Immigrants...

"Traitors Shall Take a Back Seat"—One Year After the War, the South's Loyalists...

Election Fraud, Freed Slaves, & Taxes: What Democrats Were Actually Saying in...

One Year After Appomattox: A Radical New Orleans Newspaper Argues Why Democracy...

Cholera, Grave Robbing, and a Man Who Jumped Into the River: New Orleans One...

Democracy in Collapse: The Day Andrew Johnson's Presidency Died in Front of...

President Johnson's Last Stand: The Tour That Failed to Save His Presidency

One Year After Appomattox: A Kansas Newspaper Declares War on Reconstruction...

A City Divided: Cholera, Commerce, and Contradictions in Reconstruction New...

Grant Backs Johnson's Reconstruction—And 500 People Fall Into a Pennsylvania...

Johnson's Tour Flops While Radicals Rally the North—Reconstruction's Turning...

The Johnstown Bridge Collapse & 5 Other Disasters That Rattled America on Sept....

Bushwhackers Attack Union Convention | Austria Threatens Prussia | Grasshoppers...

Forrest Congratulates Union Veterans: One Year After the War, America Can't...

When Kansas Mocked a President: A Small-Town Paper's Savage Take on Andrew...

25,000 Brave the Rain to Welcome Southern Loyalists—Reconstruction at Its Peak

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Why New Orleans Is Rioting Again (and Other...

Gunfire, Cholera & Piano Sales: New Orleans in Chaos, One Year After the War

1866: A Faithful Immigrant Dies of Cholera in Reconstruction New Orleans—And...

A War-Torn Parish Rebuilds: Louisiana's Land Grab of 1866

One-Armed Soldier, Bald Eagle Mascot, and the Veterans Who Turned the Tables on...

A Senator Warned the 14th Amendment Would Force 'Negro Suffrage'—Then It Did

Montana's 10,000-Vote Shock: How a 1866 Election Became America's...

October

Jefferson Davis Won't Face Trial—Plus General Santa Anna's Surprising Manhattan...

A Toy Cannon's Tragedy: Reconstruction New Orleans Grieves a Mother's Death

Oil Strikes Indiana, Cholera Strikes Cities, Sheridan Investigates Burned...

Kansas Paper Roasts President Johnson: 'You Cannot Cheat the People, John'...

Custer's Fury, Johnson's Rebuke, and Why the South is Moving North (Oct. 5,...

Oct. 1866: Bismarck Gets His General's Stars, War Widows Get Bureaucratic...

A French-Language Newspaper Argues That Slavery's End is Just the...

Pianos, Politics & Petty Crime: New Orleans' Chaotic Spring Back to Life...

Shot in the Chest, and Nobody Knows Who Pulled the Trigger—New Orleans, 1866

October 1866: Republicans Win Big—And a French Opera Troupe Goes Down at Sea

The Election That Sealed Reconstruction: How October 1866 Made America's Future

GLORY HALLELUJAH! How Indiana Voters Ended Lenient Reconstruction in October...

Hanged at Dawn: The Brutal Confessions That Haunted 1866 New York—Plus...

1866: A Steamship Lost at Sea, a Boy Shot on a Country Road, and New Orleans...

Eighteen Unknown Bodies in the Potter's Field: Why New Orleans Needs a Morgue...

When War Heroes Became Office-Seekers: Inside the 1866 Convention That Nearly...

A Pennsylvania Newspaper's Brutal Taxonomy of Brides (1866): Why Charlie's...

What Was Found Above Benjamin Franklin's Deathbed? A 1866 Mystery From the...

The Empress Who Refused to Leave the Vatican—Plus Johnson's Civil War Still...

Germans Dancing in the Rain: New Orleans Tries to Celebrate (and Fails to Find...

Beauregard's Triumphant Return & the Violent Reality of Reconstruction New...

Reconstruction's Boiling Point: When Baltimore Nearly Erupted and Sherman Gave...

A Kansas Paper Processes the South's Defeat: Poetry, Prospectors, and Political...

Fenian Colonel Hanged, Hurricane Devastates Islands, and Prussian Europe Takes...

Death Sentence in Canada Sparks Fenian War Threats—And Sherman Arrives in...

Fenians, Cholera & Border Riots: America's Violent October 1866

Grant Meets Taylor, Longstreet Cashes In: How the South Went Back to Business...

The Fenian Crisis, Freedmen Murders, and America's Fractured Reconstruction...

When America Sent 10,000 Troops to Mexico (and Nearly Started a War with...

November

Maryland on the Brink: Governor Fires Police Commissioners, Military Standby...

The Morning 3,000 Cretans Drowned & America's Police Commissioners Refused to...

Federal Troops Arrive in Baltimore as Swann's Commissioners Land in...

A City in Mourning Seeks Healing: Inside New Orleans' Lavish Banner Ceremony,...

New Orleans Sends Its First Postwar Shipment—and Cholera Kills 100 in a Week

Election Night 1866: Republicans Win Big—and Maximilian Flees Mexico for His...

The Day the South Realized Its Plan Failed: Satirist Nasby on the Election That...

Republicans Crush It in 1866: Voters Demand Harder Line on the South—and...

When a California Bureaucrat Said 'No' to the President—And Got Away With It...

New Orleans Rising: Fair, Davis's Freedom, and the South's Gamble on Redemption

Fair Warning: How New Orleans Rebuilt Itself (One $20,000 Prize at a Time)

One Year After Appomattox: U.S. Arrests a Mexican General & the South Descends...

A Prisoner's Daring Escape, Fenian Trials, and the South's Legal Defiance:...

How Major Palliser Solved the Armor Problem That Almost Sank Britain's Navy

A Minister's Fall & Mexico's Emperor: The Scandals Shaking America, November...

Johnson's Secret Deal: Can the President & Congress Really Agree on...

Johnson in Masonic Robes: How America Stitched Itself Together 5 Months After...

Maximilian's Bags Leave Mexico City: Empire Crumbles as Washington Troops Mass

Cholera Ships, Fenian Plots & a Presidential Shutdown: November 1866

One Year After the War: A Letter from the South Reveals Reconstruction's Hidden...

November 1866: Maximilian's Madness, Mobs in Kentucky, and Johnson's...

One Year After Appomattox: Grant Defies Johnson, Fenians Plot Invasion, and...

One Year After Appomattox: Thaddeus Stevens Plots the President's Downfall...

1866: When Frontiers Swallowed Families Whole—A Widow's Story from Iowa

Maine 1866: Steamships, Fashion, and the North's Frantic Rush to Replace the...

December

Treasury Under Fire, Freedmen in the Balance, and a Cattle Plague That Emptied...

Bridge Collapse Kills Many in Ohio as Congress Battles Johnson Over...

Congress Punishes Johnson's Allies & Investigates 'Hundreds of Millions' in...

Congress vs. Johnson: December 1866's Reconstruction Reckoning—and Why a Coal...

December 1866: Supreme Court Strikes Down Reconstruction, Fenians Plot from New...

Printing Presses & Political Turmoil: How Iowa's Gate City Covered...

The Last Patriot Still Living: Inside Reconstruction's Most Brutal Week...

CAPTURED: The Lincoln Conspiracy's Missing Piece Found in Egypt—And His Cryptic...

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Seizes Control of Reconstruction (and a...

Did Jefferson Davis Order Lincoln's Assassination? A Shocking Claim Surfaces in...

1866: When Western Newspapers Declared Independence from New York—Plus a Hero's...

Fire, Politics & Gallows: December 1866's America Caught Between War and Peace

Shakespeare, shipwrecks & 800 lost letters: Portland rebuilds, December 1866

Congress Fractures Over Reconstruction While the Pope Considers a Historic...

Burned Theaters, Fenian Scares & Political Fire: Evansville's Window on...

A Rebel Soldier's Secret Gift to His Union Nurse (1866) — How Some Americans...

Cautiously optimistic

Lincoln's Assassins Seek Freedom While Congress Battles Over the South's Future...

How Half of New York's Whiskey Vanished: The 1866 Fraud That Shocked America

Brazil Frees All Slaves While America Faces Its Reckoning: Dec. 24, 1866

Maximilian's Mexican Empire Crumbles on Christmas 1866—And America Watches

1866: Seward's Secret Mexico Ultimatum Leaks in Paris—And Napoleon's Furious

Kansas, December 1866: Soldiers Come Home While the South Burns Freedmen's...

1866: Tariffs, Rebels, and Cholera—America's Fractured Reconstruction Moment

Radical Republicans Demand Black Suffrage in Arkansas (1866): The Front-Line...

A Yacht Beats the Atlantic While America Grapples with Reconstruction (Dec. 30,...

1866's Final Hour: Massacre on the Plains, Mexico Pushes Back, and a Yacht Race...