GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ In the 1920s, Charles Conrad Becker often would lean back in his chair on the back porch after supper and tell his young son Harold about his exploits as a Union soldier during ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white ...

DEARBORN COUNTY, Ind. (WKRC) - A local Civil War veteran and former slave is being honored with a new headstone. William Early was buried under his enslaver’s last name. It took a lot of digging, but ...

Waiting for the slave ship United States near the New Orleans wharves in October 1828, Isaac Franklin may have paused to consider how the city had changed since he had first seen it from a flatboat ...

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Conversation) – Harriet Tubman was ...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — School officials say there will be no more Civil War-related student dress-up activities at a Georgia elementary school after its "Civil War Day" sparked conflict among students, ...

“Third parties can never win” or so you have heard a thousand times. Except — and it’s one huge exception — under historical circumstances much like the conditions we currently face. We are living in ...