Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal ... Because Carney had the audacity to be Black while fighting for his country. Task & Purpose reports the removal of Carney's page is part ...

James Yates was an African-American who decided to travel ... The documentary "Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War" tells the story of the Lincoln Brigade, composed ...

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina ... had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. Over the next three decades, Smalls ...

For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves better. “It fell to black sergeants to keep the unit organized ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

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Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

SIMPSONVILLE, KENTUCKY—Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On January 25, 1865, a company of Black Union ...

Now is the perfect time to uncancel the minutemen, the Revolutionary War marksmen ... in the start of the Civil War. "In Colored Patriots," Stowe reported on the numerous Black men who contributed ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified 66 — Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were ...

How One Photographer Recreated 19th Century Portraits With the Descendants of Civil War Heroes Smithsonian magazine commissioned Drew Gardner for a project that connects Black Americans today to ...