The Civil War had begun ... border states -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve ...

The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be buried in White ...

The Department of Defense announced on January 31 that celebrating “identity months” is dead for the agency. The latest ...

New Market Heights is just a small part of the history of black soldiers’ valor during America’s wars, but no Civil War battle has a more compelling claim to a place in that history.

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War ... While Black women were not allowed to officially enlist as soldiers ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in ... race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both sides of ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

WITH PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER DAN HARRIS. BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY. AND WHILE EACH YEAR WE HONOR AND RECOGNIZE THE HISTORIC TRAILBLAZERS LIKE DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, FREDERICK ...