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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order ending diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the federal government has ...

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 ...

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 ...