In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

On a January day in 1865, Company E of the United States Colored Cavalry was ambushed by a group of Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville ... But in 2023, Miller came across a map from 1936 that ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil War still linger in America, and especially in the state of Mississippi, which officially celebrated ...

I lived through Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Great Depression and World War II, and our nation of strong people (known as the Greatest Generation) made many real sacrifices to survive the depression ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War. When you purchase through links on our site ...

June 3 is when Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead from the Civil War, and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day. Yes. A bill to stop celebrating Confederate Memorial Day and designate ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has made sweeping claims over who the UK has the strongest trading relationship with. In a major snub to US President Donald Trump, Ms Reeves argued that Europe is more ...

Tis the season to drop $45.00 on one more festively red Donald Trump hat. Haven't you heard? In yet another noble effort to Make America Great Again ( ), Trump released a special holiday ...

Florida Republicans are embroiled in a civil war — Gov. Ron DeSantis has excoriated state House leadership, accusing them of revolting against voters who sent them to the legislative chamber and ...

In a docuseries that ran over 10 nights on PBS, the Vietnam War got the same hallowed treatment Ken Burns brought nearly 30 years earlier to the Civil War. Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam ...