Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

For generations, Cleveland residents glancing at a Bavarian-style brick structure while driving on Linden Avenue have ...

I wrote for The Telegraph a column titled “Grand Army of the Republic’s legacy lives on.” It dealt with the Parrott Rifle, sometimes called “the cemetery cannon,” which sits in Alton Cemetery. The ...

Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

Camp Nelson, Kentucky Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon became Kentucky’s largest recruitment center for Black soldiers. Over 10,000 ...