In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...

War-torn South Sudan is a country the State Department advises against travel to due to “crime, kidnapping, and armed ...

Students spent a week touring Underground Railroad sites in Camden and Lawnside and taking photographs to learn about the ...

The Georgia branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans says plans for the exhibit at Memorial Hall violate state law.

From live battle reenactments to walking in the footsteps of troops and visiting historical markers, these destinations offer ...

Occurrences and actions from our past are often debated and used as a foundation upon which values, beliefs and future paths are determined. Within our society, there are often different ...

The truth about Tule Lake, Alcatraz, Sutro Baths and hundreds of other sites could be erased under an executive order ...

The African-Americans were formed into regiments of the U.S. Colored Troops. Eventually 179,000 blacks under the command of 7,000 white officers served in the Civil War.

In Kingston, the Mount Zion African American Burial Ground, on South Wall Street, has interred the remains of members of the U.S. Colored Infantry’s 20th Regiment, which fought in the Civil War.