Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

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In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

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

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction is hosting a two-day symposium for educators in ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... “one of the most memorable epochs in the history of the world.” 44 It was an unmistakable signal that the moral arguments against ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down ...