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

Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...

Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1951 when a bomb was placed under their home in Mims.

Fort Defiance Civil War Park and Interpretive Center, in partnership with the Mt. Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation ...

One of the 10 greatest trees in the world is still holding strong — and with a remarkable tale of strength to pair with it.

On the anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre, the International African American Museum in Charleston put a new item on ...

At age 6, Bridges embarked on a historic walk to school as the first African ... an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War ...

Elizabeth Von Tersch, Senior Editor Situated less than 2 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta and spanning 48 acres, Oakland Cemetery reflects the city's role in both the Civil War and the civil ...

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

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was planned to honour Australia’s dead from World War I. But the Australian War Memorial was opened just months before Darwin ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these lost their lives during the D-Day invasion. There's also a memorial ...

February is Black History Month, and St. Louis is dedicated to preserving and sharing stories of African Americans who helped ...