The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

Civil War historians in Lackawanna County are looking to bring back a piece of history thought to be lost decades ago.

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

“So much of the African American story -- of us fighting ... area that was the first Black unit to fight for the Union Army in the Civil War. At the time he was a guide at the Beaufort County ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished ... The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg. (Knopf via AP) But ...