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

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

In the meantime, the Civil War Trust has listed New Market Heights ... notably the “Harlem Hellfighters,” a black regiment that gave no ground, lost no prisoners, and, having stayed on the ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and a tintype ... Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... This time they were accepted into all-black units. The first of these was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, led by white ...

It commemorates the service and sacrifice of Black troops in Arkansas during the Civil War, focusing on the 1st and 2nd ...

The NAACP’s Luzerne branch and the Luzerne County Historical society hosted a Black History Month hosted ... to the country ...

ATHAN YANOS and LEONARDO PINI Medill Illinois News Bureau and Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — As Black History Month came to an end last week, the Illinois State Museum honored Black ...

In the 160 years since, researchers have repeatedly sought to quantify the Civil War’s staggering death ... About 4 million Black enslaved people in Southern states were freed after Union ...

Warning: This article contains details of sexual violence that some people may find distressing Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war ...

My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil War Memorial in ...