A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

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The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

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Mark Twain published Grant’s memoirs. It was finished just days before his death to cancer July 1885. “The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant” published in 1886 is a literary masterpiece. Grant’s widow ...

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

Here is a look at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Facts There are 16.2 million veterans in the United States, according to the most recent statistics from the US Census. More than nine million ...

King Day at the Dome started in 2000 as a protest to the Confederate flag flying over the State House dome and inside both ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon, on ...