After noticing that the practice of documenting war was fading, the veteran aimed to capture insights from battles and make ...

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

For generations, tattoos have served as both a rite of passage and a record of service for members of the military.

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...