TAKE a walk in the Dean Cemetery on the west side of Edinburgh and you will find a memorial that is emblazoned with the distinctive battle flag ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

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

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

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

We are highlighting the history of African Americans in Colorado and how they shaped our past. We looked at the city's ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...