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 ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

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 ...

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.

“These are my people,” he said. Coleman is researching the 29 Civil War soldiers buried in East Union’s cemetery. He has discovered the challenges the soldiers faced, the families they left ...

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

Cook (now Lauren Cook Wike) wrote in their book “They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War ... she wrote from Alexandria, Virginia, on Feb. 20, 1863.