Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil War. A new documentary on the third U.S. president considers the ...

The inscription on the statue reads: “On June 19, 1865, at the close of the Civil War, U.S. Army General Gordon Granger issued an order in Galveston stating that the 1863 Emancipation ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHTM) — On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant. On April 26, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the ar… ...

There were three reasons to celebrate Holy Week in April 1865: The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the end of the Civil War, and a resurrection of the self-consciousness of freed black men and ...

Bad Blood: The Border War that Triggered the Civil War. Special | 1h 27m 36s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The story of events leading up to the Civil War along the border of Kansas and Missouri.

Historical records relating to blacks who were involved in the Civil War. Smithsonian Civil War Timeline . McRel Standards. United States History. 13. Understands the causes of the Civil War . 14 ...

Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.

On June 19, 1865, the American Civil War was over but news finally reached slaves in Galveston, Texas. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had freed them two years earlier.

By 1860, there were 180,000 slaves, and by the end of the Civil War, more than 250,000. The reason for the large growth in the number of slaves between 1860 and 1865 was a diabolical one.

Though still technically free, Harriet, just 17, was put to work cleaning Gallop’s house for no pay. In 1847, Baker learned he was to be sold to an owner in Georgia, so the couple, with their 7 ...