In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

The First Rhode Island Regiment was formed in 1778, at a time when slavery was still legal in many colonies. To boost their troop numbers, Rhode Island allowed enslaved men to enlist, promising them ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

whether slain soldiers’ remains are in unmarked land in Baker County or under unnamed headstones in South Carolina ― and who put them there. Fascinated with the Civil War since childhood ...

Winooski United Methodist Church – Many of the renowned Buffalo Soldiers, a Black regiment known for fighting ... related families by the end of the Civil War (who) cleared the land, joined ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

The public is invited to a free showing of the award-winning Civil War movie “Glory” on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. at the ...

War is the defining ... the story of black soldiers, crediting the 200,000 black men who served in the American Civil War. Shaw leads the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...