On both sides, the Civil War boasted men who were brilliant ... Many leaders earned reputations and nicknames based on their actions in war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become ...

The Klu Klux Klan At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate veterans formed ... Local NAACP leaders included pioneering figures ranging from Daisy Bates in Little Rock, Arkansas and ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney, who inspired Denzel Washington’s character ...

These figures ... Studies and African-American Studies and has received several awards for teaching and research. She is excited to be sharing her love for the Civil War-era South with PBS.

During Black History Month most students in the U.S are taught about major African-American historical figures like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, often leaving the stories of Robert Smalls ...

Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive ... five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., treats ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...