Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon became Kentucky’s ...

The following year, the city enacted a municipal civil-rights law that revoked the license of any business convicted of discriminating against African Americans. The liberal atmosphere of the postwar ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

Strange artifact at Civil War battlefield is skin from alligator that attacked a soldier during the battle over Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Park says.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil rights spokesmen, worked in tandem with presidential and legislative decisio ...

What was life like behind the front lines of the Civil War? An educational and engaging event will answer that question July 12 at the Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Fred Minus brought Civil War history to life at Hopewell Valley Central High School, highlighting the experiences of Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army.