Why former Georgia football coach Vince Dooley spent time in retirement preserving American battlefields and studying Civil ...

Franklin County proclaimed July 18 as Zion Union Cemetery Day, recognizing the Mercersburg cemetery's 150-year history.

In 2005, several Black women from the Greater Washington Area were asked by officials at Washington, D.C.’s African American Civil War Museum to serve as hostesses for an event. Patricia Tyson (left), ...

Two and a half centuries since the US Declaration of Independence, the country can’t be all that proud of its actions around ...

History came to life this weekend at the Honey Springs Battlefield as reenactors, historians and visitors gathered to honor ...

Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain ...

A local cemetery was recognized this week in honor of its sesquicentennial. The Franklin County Commissioners proclaimed ...

Washington in Wilkes County has long focused on the Civil War. Now, historians want to preserve the site of the 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek. Where exactly was the battlefield?

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress From ...

It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free Black people ...

A dangerous myth exists today that acknowledging the history of slavery and the oppression and resistance of Black people is ...