So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

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, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Run by historian Kevin Levin, this site focuses on the intersection of slavery, race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both ...

Run by historian Kevin Levin, this site focuses on the intersection of slavery, race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...

As the first proxy war between the superpowers, the Greek Civil War became the first hot zone of the Cold War.InRed Acropolis, Black Terror, historian Andre Gerolymatos recounts the full history of ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty.

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent gateway on Boundary Street in a city where generations of Black residents were enslaved on area plantations.

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...

In his new book, "Dangerous Learning," legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this country.

That Arthur T. Carter is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument sounds about right. Especially when folks ...