A historian raises concerns as the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction in Fayetteville moves ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American ... s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would stand ...

The diary of African American teenager Jessie Greer, of Cincinnati, captured the moment when two “negro contingents,” as the local newspaper put it, came home to Ohio from World War I.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

From the first Black president to the first African American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people have made considerable gains – and helped to change the face of U.S ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...

Beverly Foster's love of history goes back to when she was in first grade. In college, she didn't originally seek a history degree, but after working as a teacher to help her husband provide for their ...

It's a book that depicts African American Iowans who migrated to the state during the Civil War era. With help from the University of Iowa Libraries, teachers in Davenport like third-grade teacher ...

Since purchasing the property, the foundation has been documenting the house, property and surrounding neighborhood.

It would transform Black and African American lives for generations to ... and that Freedmen’s Bureau really helped to usher post-Civil War slaves into freedom," said Dr. Mitchell.