A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

When websites don’t get the job done, you turn to a professional genealogist like Char McCargo-Bah, the Alexandria native who identified the descendants of 171 of the Civil War-era freed slaves ...

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or ...

Historians have also started grappling with the ways American slavery was uniquely gender-egalitarian – at least for white women. While Northern women were trapped in coverture, Southern states were ...

Typically, this fact is used to suggest that the Civil War was not about slavery. If so few Southerners owned slaves, goes the argument, then the war had to be about something else (namely, the ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

The New England Civil War Museum has been added to the Connecticut Freedom Trail following two years of reshaping the museum's main exhibit. The museum, located on the second floor of Town Hall, ...

Trump’s experiment in rapid national disassembly echoes America’s near-death experiment in the years before the Civil War. In the past few days, we have passed what might be called the ...

A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...

The Declaration of Independence was America’s declaration it would no longer be ruled by England. It effectively became a declaration of war: the American Revolutionary War, or the American War of ...

On Juneteenth, Raleigh pays tribute to the often-overlooked U.S. Colored Troops who played a pivotal role in the Union's victory during the Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery.