Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Even though it’s been 160 years since the Civil War ended, Black Americans are still feeling the effects of the war that ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it reinforced the power of slave states.

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...

Denton’s “Free Colored School” organized with a school board in Quakertown in 1866, one year after the Civil War ended.

Florida legally observes Confederate Memorial Day, along with the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but these ...

The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...