Four African American army regiments were stationed at Fort Davis from 1867-1885. The "Buffalo Soldiers" there and beyond ...

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

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

I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil War America After discovering ... and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards for teaching and research.

Race relations and the fight for ethnic equality have been an ongoing pursuit since the birth of the nation. Every facet of ...

Many of the black American soldiers who came to France in the first World War were from the American south. And what they encountered here was a society that had it’s own prejudices but was ...