A new National Building Museum exhibit highlights the legacy of Rosenwald Schools. Once common in Maryland and Virginia, these historic buildings helped close the education gap and shaped future civil ...

The Talbot Historical Society, in cooperation with the descendants of Nathaniel “Uncle Nace” Hopkins, invites you to join us in the living history performance ...

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — West Virginians fought during the Civil War to abolish slavery and preserve the Union. To honor them, the state legislature created special medals in 1866. Many of the ...

By 1864, more than 12,000 surgeons had served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. Just 14 of them were Black. Historian Jill Newmark's 2023 book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of ...

This year, as America celebrates its 250th anniversary, Arizona is highlighting community-led events. In the first of a two-part series, reenactors recently descended on an abandoned mining town to ...

When Americans are asked to think about Civil War uniforms, two colors typically come immediately to mind: blue and gray.

Editorial: Few places embody the struggles and progress of Black history more fully than Baltimore and Maryland.

This week marks 161 years since Union and Confederate troops met in The Battle of Fort Myers.It was one of the 10,000 places where the Civil War was fought, to paraphrase the opening narration in Ken ...

The same interesting mind that took the licking out of stamp adhesion has produced 37 books on the Civil War. Among these is a two-volume account of Robert E. Lee’s 1863 invasion of the North, ...