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UNCOVERED: Reconstruction - Caught on Camera

First Thing: Mississippi turns blue as Scott Colom unseats Republican Senate incumbent

Defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith makes the 43-year-old district attorney the first Black Mississippi senator elected since Reconstruction

The Guardian - UK · 11h ago

A Senator Who Once Joked About a 'Public Hanging' Just Lost to Mississippi's First Black Senator in 145 Years

Scott Colom has narrowly defeated Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, becoming the first Black senator directly elected by the state's voters since the Reconstruction era.

International Business Times UK · 13h ago

Mississippi elects Democrat Scott Colom as a US senator, in photos

Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. His narrow victory, confirmed Wednesday after prolonged ballot counting, marks a major political shift in the conservative state.____

The Independent UK · 18h ago

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Democrat Scott Colom wins historic Senate race in Mississippi

Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi after a final count on Wednesday, becoming the state's first Black US senator since Reconstruction. His narrow victory adds to the Democrats' midterm gains as President Donald Trump's party suffers a series of defeats.

France 24 · Nov 11

Colom elected Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction

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Roll Call · Nov 11

A more perfect union? Congress has been the place where America tries to resolve its problems

Congress's influence on America is profound, having enacted pivotal laws like the Bill of Rights. The Reconstruction Acts and Civil Rights legislation were crucial in promoting equality post-Civil War. Moreover, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid have created a safety net for many citizens. Current debates surrounding taxation and war powers…

The Economic Times · Sep 9

The supreme court’s voting rights decision wasn’t about law – it was about politics

This court has impaled one of the most important laws in American history, with disastrous consequences for multiracial democracy

The Guardian - US · May 1

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Donald Trump Faces Fresh Cognitive Health Fears, Claims Reconstruction Is 'Fancy Name' For Civil War

Donald Trump's recent comments in Texas about the Civil War and Reconstruction have sparked controversy and raised questions about his understanding of US history.

International Business Times UK · Feb 28

Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set around the American Civil War because of Yasuke backlash and political turmoil in the US

The game was meant to take primarily during the Reconstruction era, and would have featured a Black assassin confronting the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.

PC Gamer · Oct 8, 2025

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

The Guardian - US · Sep 28, 2025

Trump will target all Americans' rights

"You will have no rights that Trump and the federal government are bound to respect"

Salon · May 29, 2025

Expert on "sorry history" behind MAGA

Manisha Sinha spoke to Salon about Donald Trump's 19th-century vision and America's history of radical resistance

Salon · Apr 4, 2025

The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed

Donald Trump is the third U.S. president to pardon a large group of insurrectionists. His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew…

The Conversation · Mar 7, 2025

Adam Hinojosa flips Texas Senate seat, becomes first Republican to represent Rio Grande Valley district since Reconstruction

Hinojosa won the only competitive seat in the Texas Senate this cycle, besting Sen. Morgan LaMantia two years after she narrowly defeated him.

The Texas Tribune · Nov 6, 2024

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Reason · Feb 7, 2024

Based on Loose Reasoning, a Federal Judge Rejects a Challenge to the Gun-Free School Zones Act

The decision likens the federal law to Reconstruction era restrictions on firearms near polling places.

The Guardian - US · Jan 28, 2024

US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot

Twenty-five civil war and Reconstruction scholars support invoking 14th amendment to bar Trump from ballot over January 6

The Guardian - US · Jan 15, 2024

Prosecutors are charging Trump using laws made to fight the KKK. Here’s why

After the civil war, Klansmen were prosecuted – and Confederate traitors forced from office – by the same laws Trump has now run afoul of

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 9, 2023

Today’s Republican Party has abandoned its roots

The party first turned its back on its values in 1876 by agreeing to dismantle Reconstruction. Ever since, power rather than principle has been its driving motive.

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The Guardian - US · Oct 8, 2023

Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

Historian Fergus Bordewich salutes the civil war general turned 18th president for his attempt to reconstruct the south

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023

When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The shooter intended to start a race war and had posed with Confederate imagery in photos posted online.

Ballotpedia · Feb 9, 2023

Mississippi Republicans guaranteed majorities in both state legislative chambers for first time since Reconstruction

The major party candidate filing deadline in Mississippi passed on Feb. 1, and, for the first time since Reconstruction, the number of Republicans running without Democratic opponents is large enough to guarantee Republican majorities in both legislative chambers.

Salon · Jan 15, 2023

Here's how to fix the Supreme Court

Historian David Gans on the lessons of Reconstruction, when Congress enforced reforms on a stubborn Supreme Court

Tribune News Service · Nov 9, 2022

Past is present in Peniel Joseph’s ‘The Third Reconstruction’

"The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century" by Peniel Joseph; Basic Books (288 pages, $27)

Salon · Sep 17, 2022

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

A case of fake history repeating itself: The American right told vicious lies about the Confederacy for decades

The Guardian - US · Sep 17, 2022

The Nation That Never Was review: a new American origin story, from the ashes of the old

Kermit Roosevelt III, descendant of Theodore, sees lessons for today’s divided nation in Reconstruction and the civil rights era

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