The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...

A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, a “disaster in an otherwise blessed land.” Emma Mordecai, a Virginia Jew, prepared ...

The US Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule ...

Harriet Tubman was an abolistionist and freedom seeker who led many others to safety in the north. Her photo and quote have ...

Bennett Place State Historic Site in NC commemorates Civil War surrender and slavery's end with a two-day event.