Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

Success against the rebels’ fortress, which had never been touched in four years of war, would be a knife ... of what were then called the United States Colored Troops (USCT).

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

ALTOONA, Pa. — Penn State Altoona will present “Bedford, Blair, and Centre County African American Historians: The 19th Century to the 21st Century” at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, in the Pond View ...

The Cape Fear's most famous Civil War battle took place at Fort Fisher in January of 1865. But another important battle was fought miles away on the grounds of the present Day Cameron Art Museum.