American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

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

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

West Point graduate John Blair Smith Todd was no stranger to military action. He fought against Florida’s Seminole tribe in ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

But it was not just because he grew up around Chattanooga learning of its rich native American, Civil War, railroad, and industrial significance while on his way to becoming Mr. Red Bank High of 1968.