Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...
Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
Some photographs are so powerful that you no longer need to read the caption to learn their backstory. The image in itself is captivating enough to inspire you to create your own narratives. This is ...
AN uneasy peace existed in the settlement at the headwaters of the Connecticut River known as Indian Stream. Both the United States and Great Britain claimed this territory ...
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While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...
A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.