Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

A pen-and-ink sketch of the plan for the Battle of Cold Harbor made by Robert Knox Sneden, a map-maker for the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Battle of Cold Harbor was one of the ...

Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people ... An estimated 28 probable graves were identified at the seventh American president's former property, called the Hermitage Olatunji ...

Hearing about the different diseases that affected soldiers during the Civil War. Learning how women nursed the wounded and sick. As part of the weekend event, Dr. Trevor Steinbach will present the ...

ELIZABETH CITY — Fought over three days in March 1865, the Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County is considered the last large-scale battle of the U.S. Civil War. A 60,000-troop Union army ...