In the north, membership in antislavery societies and abolitionist movements began rising dramatically, as a profound division of America took root and the causes of a great Civil War began to foment.

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill ... She was also a nurse and ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number ... histories on specific events or moments in American history. The way the stories are layered, it ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War ... the crisis of the Union, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to lead a major military ...

Garnet became an orator against slavery, telling the American Anti-Slavery ... and a number of other abolitionists in the years leading up to the Civil War. Although his address to enslaved ...

A new exhibit at the Plano African American Museum focuses on the ... Mexico had been a possibility leading up to the U.S.

After the Civil War, abolitionists and public education advocates saw the ... the National Museum of African American History and Culture wrote. The federal government started funding vocational ...

After the Civil War, abolitionists and public education advocates ... the National Museum of African American History and Culture wrote. The federal government started funding vocational education ...

Army photo/Screenshot from ‘Glory’ A Black soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Civil War battle retold as ... was the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor.