West central Minnesota has a proud military history and that is portrayed in the various county historical societies and museums across the region. Within their walls are more than 160 years of ...

Mass. Governor John Andrew answered that call by forming one of the first Black regiments in the Civil War — and a dozen of ...

U.S. military veterans, all of whom were Black, were buried in unmarked graves at St. Louis Cemetery on Barret Avenue.

"His long and distinguished career as a commissioned officer in the United States Army made him a popular figure of his time ...

During the Antebellum and Reconstruction eras, she was an activist, poet and educator—she even taught freed slaves during the Civil War and wrote about it for The Atlantic in the 1864 article “Life on ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

“Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War,” the latest contribution from Civil War and Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo, is filled with ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is a figure of monumental historical importance, remembered not only as the only woman to receive the United States’ highest military award, the Medal of Honor, but also as a ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...