The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Slave Trading in the Civil War South A Harper's Weekly illustration of Confederate soldiers driving Black Americans south in 1862 Library of Congress In the late summer of 1865, a few months after ...

She settled in Philadelphia but returned to Maryland in ... During the Civil War, she served as a scout, spy and nurse for ...