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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...