There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
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The Cape Fear's most famous Civil War battle took place at Fort Fisher in January of 1865. But another important battle was fought miles away on the grounds of the present Day Cameron Art Museum.
The United States Colored Troops played a role in the history of Fort Fisher from the Civil War to World War II.
Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...
Organizers from nonprofit organization Here2Hear, will present “Black History: Learning from the Past and Inspiring the Future” at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in ...
On November 10, 1898, white supremacists led the only successful U.S. coup, overthrowing Wilmington’s Black-led government in the ‘Wilmington Massacre.’ Its full toll and legacy remain unknown.
The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...
American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...