Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

After the Civil ... black Marylanders seized the chance. (Some slaveholders accepted the Union’s offer of $300 per man to let them go.) After the war ended in 1865, eighteen black soldiers ...

Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On ...

A new memorial plaque at the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center recognizes approximately 435 Black soldiers ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, ...

The Civil War had begun ... border states -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve ...

New Market Heights is just a small part of the history of black soldiers’ valor during America’s wars, but no Civil War battle has a more compelling claim to a place in that history.

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in ... race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both sides of ...

Most prominently, an Army installation in Virginia named for the general who led the Confederate Army during the Civil War ... of Signal. Black, Female Soldiers Honored for World War II Success ...