What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans allege the park’s changes to its Civil War history exhibits violate state law.

A downtown monument has been updated with the names of 30 Black soldiers from Jacksonville who fought for the Union.

A 2021 study of memorials in America counted 5,917 monuments that memorialize the Civil War. In that total, only 1 percent include the word slavery; Yale’s Civil War Memorial is not among that 1 ...

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

Dennis said Memorial Day’s potency diminished somewhat with the addition of Armistice Day, which marked World War I’s end on Nov. 11, 1918. Armistice Day became a national holiday by 1938 and ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

This narrative of the Lost Cause, which romanticized the pre–Civil War South and denied the horrors of slavery, fueled white backlash against Reconstruction and the rights that the 13th, 14th ...

Celebrations of Juneteenth, the new federal holiday that honors the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, are growing ...

The Civil War might have been 160 years ago, but the civil rights movement is in our very recent past, and Black Americans are still fighting for their rights today, as legislators throughout the ...

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose ... particularly the iconic “I Have a Dream,” delivered in 1963 to over 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial, ... poverty and war.