Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made ...

Black sailors were therefore accepted into the U.S. Navy from the beginning of the war ... African Americans, who they accused of stealing their jobs. Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil ...

No fewer than 14 African-American soldiers were awarded the Medal ... For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.

When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about ...

The U.S. Navy joins the nation in celebrating the history of African ... War to present-day conflicts. Currently, African Americans make up 17 percent of all Navy personnel, or roughly 64,000 Sailors.

That Arthur T. Carter is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument sounds about right. Especially when folks ...

To gain deeper insight, Moore, along with the project’s USCT Ancestry Committee and Virginia Tech students, collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in ...

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for ... In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry ...