Read More: What America Owes Black Veterans of World War II These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service, if not African American patriotism ... Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass, “Our men ...

“Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War,” the latest contribution from Civil War and Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo, is filled with ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

The Freedman’s Bureau was supposed to provide wealth to the newly freed slaves after the Civil War ended. Instead, it failed. The result of its collapse is still impacting Black Americans in the U.S.

We know how long and how painfully the ramifications of what is coming will be felt. Millions of words have been written ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

There’s so many great things about being Black, but one of the most powerful is our resilience. In times of trouble and ...

The UK-produced film is based on Douglass’ first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American ...

A legendary woman You most likely remember Susan B. Anthony for the strides she made for women’s rights in the United States, ...

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

Aaron Robertson’s exacting, poetic The Black Utopians tracks the rise of Black nationalism, skeptical to its core, through a cadre of Detroit activists, knitting their creative and often militant ...