As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.” Kate Clifford ...

Fred Minus brought Civil War history to life at Hopewell Valley Central High School, highlighting the experiences of Black ...

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 ...

War is hell, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have uttered.* And the food, he might as well have added, was pretty lousy, too. As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of ...

Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.

Retropolis Transgender soldiers date to the Civil War. As the new administration tries to ban certain people from the military, a history lesson may show us which Americans are battle-tested.

The Civil War marked an inflection point in U.S. history like no other. Fought less than a century after the country won independence from Great Britain, the war pitted free, federalist states in ...

2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

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, made up ...

One in every four members of the Union armed forces was an immigrant, some 543,000 of the more than 2 million Union soldiers by recent estimates. Another 18% had at least one foreign-born parent.

What Civil War soldiers can teach us about how trauma is passed from generation to generation. Union soldiers pose during the Siege of Petersburg in Virginia in 1864.