At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...
Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...
Penn Township resident Bill Bray has made it his mission to ensure the Civil War veterans buried in Westmoreland County are ...
The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...
When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861 ... people who secretly shared their knowledge of Confederate movements and plans. Wary of white Union soldiers, many local African Americans trusted ...
Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union Army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage ...
A park that was the site of fierce fighting during the Battle of Hanover has a new name, in honor of the Union soldiers that ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with the website for donations to the restoration project. The 16-foot-tall marble obelisk towers above the scatter of gravestones surrounding it.