As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will never be forgotten, thanks to the Camp ...

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...

The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil War soldiers known as the 1st South Carolina ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren't from the Revolutionary War. The remains were found while excavators searched around ...

Brian Maloney remembers taking family road trips to Gettysburg and Fort Sumter and other historical sites, but never realized his distant hometown of Arlington Heights could have anything to do with ...

A century after serving in the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, two soldiers are to receive veteran headstones. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs approved headstones for ...

As the new administration tries to ban certain people from the military, a history lesson may show us which Americans are battle-tested. The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, ...

Members of Lawrence's branch of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War clean the headstones of Union soldiers on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Pioneer Cemetery. Members of the Sons of Union ...

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...