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

Dempsey Daniel Butler arrived in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1840s. An abolitionist and ardent supporter of the Underground Railroad, Butler opened a general store in the city. Through his business ...

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 ...

Marriage of a Colored Soldier, between 1866 and 1871 ... HNOC, 1997.101 I, ii Four years after the United States nearly tore itself apart in the Civil War, more than 330,000 African American men, ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

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

The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has unveiled plans for a transitional government ahead of elections, seeking to end a two-year civil war that has displaced millions of people and killed tens ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression, the appeal of ...