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

Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

Several NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, have documented evidence of numerous mass atrocities committed throughout the conflict, prompting accusations of ethnic cleansing and war crimes.

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the Civil War had ended. “The red glare from the eight burning ...

In the weeks following Garfield’s death, on Sept. 19, 1881, new civil service reform groups sprang up from Massachusetts to California. It seemed unlikely that Arthur, a creature of the spoils ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...