Abraham Lincoln, celebrated on his 216th birthday, left a significant impact as the 16th President of the US. Not only known ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War ... them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help ...

It was an extraordinary feat given the perils of the 1850 Slave Fugitive Act, which enabled anyone to capture and ... and had been fighting for gender equality and the right to vote as a free Black ...

Moore stated that after the Civil War, some of the saddest cases in the homeless community in Louisiana were that of “the old freed women women out with years of slavery.” Joanna wrote that ...