The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...

Black soldiers faced discrimination ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same ...

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

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

We as black historians ... you believe that Confederates fought to “defend themselves from Northern invaders,” or to “protect state’s rights” or fought the Civil War for a variety ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

They made a good first impression, but I have no faith in the inherent fighting ability of the race. This was what General Patton declared after inspecting the 761st Tank Battalion in 1944, on the eve ...

When it comes to Blacks in the military ... Others who survived later became Buffalo Soldiers. He said once the Confederate guerillas left, townspeople buried those killed in Simpsonville.

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.