During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Soldier's graves in Virginia. Courtesy ... not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated militarily only because the Union's overwhelming advantages ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against ... to remember me by,” she wrote from Alexandria, Virginia, ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... and Saltville and Petersburg, both in Virginia. Still, through all of the madness of war, children remained children.

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...