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 ...

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 ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

The South American country later relented after Mr. Trump threatened ... South Sudan has been in the midst of a political crisis for more than a decade, which included a civil war that killed hundreds ...

Book Two: The Rise of Toussaint Louverture 1793-1799 continues the saga, introducing Haitian hero Toussaint Louverture, the first-born son of a West African ... colonial Civil War and ends ...

St. Augustine Lighthouse in the 1870s (Florida State Archives (Public Domain)) But on one fateful day in 1873, the girls — this time accompanied by an African American maid — hopped in the ...

An Iowa steamship was used to transport troops in the Civil War. The battleship USS Iowa BB-4 saw service in the Spanish-American War ... a submarine sailor himself for half his Navy career.