Historian Josh Brown analyzes a political cartoon from the magazine Harper's Weekly that focuses on former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Hiram Revels, the first black senator in history.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how Abraham Lincoln's successor, Vice President Andrew Johnson, was an immediate disappointment to Lincoln supporters who wanted to protect the rights of newly freed blacks.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Compromise of 1877, the hotly disputed presidential run-off between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden.

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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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Historian Eric Foner talks about the social, political, and spiritual relevance of independent black churches created after the Civil War.

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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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A cartoon from Harper's Weekly that criticizes African American politicians is rare. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Civil War, a group of influential southerners promoted a vision and some said a myth about a "New South" that would be competitive with the north.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, when Union troops left the South in 1877, most white Southerners believed their economic situation would improve. However, poor whites were not much better off than freed slaves.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the decades after Reconstruction. These years were a difficult time for African Americans, but new black leaders began to emerge in the 1800s who gave a voice to black suffering.

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