The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers ... and the African American Civil War ...

For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...

Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of ...

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high ...

Charlie Shelton-Ormond: total they were 1500 reenactors. It was actually mostly split even between Confederate and Union and 1500 is a large number, but that's actually nothing compared to the actual ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

A Union soldier from the Civil War was laid to ... Waters’ legacy is recognized by the African American Civil War Museum, which provides some information about his service.

Then it was Massachusetts minutemen, farmers and merchants, facing down professional European soldiers at the Lexington ... which would require a bloody Civil War to end. But the intervening ...