The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in ...

The Black soldiers marched south with Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant’s campaign, which included fierce battles at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the North Anna River and Cold Harbor, then across ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...