This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the 1880s, black farmers suffered the most in the economic downturn and organized themselves into the Colored Farmers' Alliance.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes "Nativism," or the resentment of foreigners, which revived in the late 19th century as greater numbers of new immigrant groups arrived in America.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks filled local and national offices, but white southerners were determined to pass new state laws to curtail this progress.

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History Professor Edward O'Donnell explains how former Confederates "redeemed," or restored a majority white rule throughout the South after Reconstruction by suppressing blacks' newly won right to vote.

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Historian Carroll Gibbs discusses African American life in Georgetown prior to and just after the Civil War, looking at laws that discriminated against and segregated African Americans, at historic churches in the area, at records that suggest African Americans escaped from Georgetown by the Underground Railroad, and at reactions to African Americans' gaining the right to vote.

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This A&E clip traces First Ladies' roles in shaping the White House, both architecturally and through decoration and restoration.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Platt Amendment, which allowed the U.S. to interfere in the affairs of Cuba.

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University of Pennsylvania professor Steven Hahn examines the violent phenomenon of lynching, which saw an enormous rise in the Reconstruction period in the South.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court decision that allowed "separate but equal" conditions for blacks and paved the way for widespread segregation in the south.

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Anti-immigration feelings are captured in an 1891 cartoon that highlights Jewish and Italian immigration. Cartoon historian Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains.

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