In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

Morris regularly petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to integrate the state’s militia. He also fought for equal participation in military service during the Civil War. Morris was gravely ...

But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... wrote a letter for him to his folks in Massachusetts." When Holmes told him he would like to buy some milk, Whitman gave him ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...