This Reconstruction strategy also requires states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery ... Republican vision of how post-Civil War American society should be structured into the ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment nearly 154 years ago — Jan. 31 ... from coerced labor or enslavement — Wisconsin is no exception. In the post-Reconstruction South, the exemption led to the ...

This Reconstruction strategy also requires states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery ... Republican vision of how post-Civil War American society should be structured into the ...