So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... where starvation and disease led to a high death rate. Northern citizens, black and white alike, stepped in to fill the gap.

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

White - Author, A House Built by Slaves ... Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers, in part because he had “no confidence” they would fight well.

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

When ministering to Black congregants, white preachers often used so-called ... one of the first things Black people did after the Civil War was form their own congregations.

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent ... “There is not a white officer in this regiment who has more administrative ability,” Col.

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...