Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, did not free the enslaved people in Maryland, it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union ...

Wooden bioresources are key materials for the transition to a circular bioeconomy, yet widespread adoption, for example in construction, still lags. Growth is stalled by policy gaps, resource ...

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

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

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 Lounge of the ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...

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.

Mariposa California's original daily updated online newspaper is the premier site for news and information on Yosemite, Mariposa, California and United States ...

Chandra Manning took to the podium for her lecture “A Dangerous Time in a Perilous Place — Uneasy Alliances in Civil War Era ...

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

The United States Colored Troops played a role in the history of Fort Fisher from the Civil War to World War II.

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 ...