Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during ...

— A stretch of M-22 in Leelanau County could soon bear a new sign honoring the patriotism and sacrifice of Michigan's Company K, a group of Native American soldiers who served in the Civil War.

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Each year, Buffalo Soldiers Day is recognized on July 28, honoring the legacy of the first all-Black Army regiments formed ...

The Heritage Commission wants an archaeological survey of land set to become affordable housing, where enslaved African Americans and Union soldiers once lived.

From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal Service shaped a nation The U.S. Postal Service is turning 250 today, as the agency faces financial challenges.

The Fourteenth Amendment, which established birthright citizenship, and equal protection under the law for Black Americans, was the most transformative outcome of the Civil War.

It also reinforced racist ideas about Native Americans during a time when the United States was rapidly expanding west, the exhibition said.

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery helping an injured White Union soldier lost in hostile territory.