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 ...

BRANDY STATION — Next weekend, dignitaries will dedicate a state historical marker in Culpeper to the first African American soldiers serving ... Henderson, a Civil War living historian and ...

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 ...