The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

On Dec. 13, 1862 at noon ... At the height of the battle and with control of the hill in hand, Lee commented to Longstreet … “It is well war is so terrible, we would grow too fond of it.” ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Proud of her Southern roots and fervently pro-slavery, Rose O'Neal Greenhow wanted to support the Confederacy in any way she ...

Tennessee’s story is built on moments that shaped the course of American history. It was the last state to secede and the ...

The earthen structure is one of 14 self-contained fortifications, known as redoubts, that enslaved people and Confederate soldiers constructed east of Williamsburg during the Civil War.

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... Courtesy of Talbot Historical Society, Easton, Maryland A 1925 map of Unionville, courtesy of the Talbot County Historical ...

March 22, 2025 at 2:22 p.m. Bruton Parish Church officials recently hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead Confederate soldiers from the 1862 Battle of ...

Lisa Elmaleh In May 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls ... After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina, opened a general store ...

The official National Park Service orientation film on the April 1862 Civil War Battle of Shiloh ...