The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the ...

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 ... Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the ...

Video shows dirt bike and ATV riders speed around D.C.’s World War II Memorial, which honors those who served in the war and those who died. At least three people can be seen whizzing around the ...

And the American Civil War was under way. But for all its fondness for majestic architecture and monuments to its heroic past, Washington DC is also home to nearly 700,000 people who live in a ...

A stone donated by Wilmington's Thalian Association in 1851 is located inside the Washington Monument ... the project ran out of money. Then the Civil War hit and, long story short, construction ...

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The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

President Donald Trump is pushing the House of Representatives to pass a measure that would prevent immediate financial ...

"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who, you know, fought in the Civil War," Parker told CBS News ... a correspondent for CBS Newspath in Washington. Since 2019, he has contributed ...