The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

A park ranger for Richmond National Battlefield Park didn’t know his acting experience would come into play when he started ...

Abraham Lincoln considered the South’s peculiar ... “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” he wrote in 1864. “I cannot remember when I did not so think, and feel.” ...

CALEB BLOOD, for more than two and a half years Secretary of the Interior in Mr. LINCOLN's first Cabinet ... 29. -- GESNER, ABRAHAM, M.D., an eminent physicistt and author, of Nova Scotia ...

In 1864, when the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Colored ... Black community was already celebrating the historic achievements on the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (2/12) and Frederick Douglass ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

Our first history program of the year will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m., at the Vernon County History Center in ...

Deaf President Now! review: participants in the 1988 protest at Gallaudet University recall their fight to be heard and for ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

It represented the best of the community in 1913 when a church was involved in fundraising for repairs to its building after ...