Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, did not free the enslaved people in Maryland, it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union ...

The Charleston Museum added two Revolutionary War-era artifacts to its collection for the nation’s 250th anniversary. Also, ...

The 265th anniversary program will feature living-history interpreters portraying colonial soldiers and settlers around the ...

In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up ...

Remembering The Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi”, by Joe Bateman and Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, (The University of Georgia Press: Athens), 280 pages, ...