Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...

The renowned military leader was merely reflecting the prevailing opinion among U.S. commanders regarding the capabilities of African American soldiers, who had been ... they had already fought in the ...

The exhibit is open now and spotlights the vital role Black soldiers played in the Civil War. It features Lincoln-era photographs, letters, documents, and art. “With this exhibi ...

Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...

On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...

They added markers on the graves of the eight Black Civil War veterans buried there, replaced the stolen monument with a new one outside the cemetery gates and routinely switch out the American ...

WASHINGTON — Five Korean War soldiers whose extraordinary heroism ... military branches to review decorations given to Black and Native American veterans to determine whether their actions ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

Those who worked and helped guide the Children’s Home, former residents and community members are invited to celebrate the ...

“These hills, these lakes, regardless of who held title, had been the home place of African-American communities connected through marriage, labor and worship since before the Civil War ...