Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the Institute of Museum and Library Services has left Kansas City ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

The National Park Service has awarded $2,289,880.56 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program to protect 155.39 acres at Civil War battlefields in ...

Conservatives have been trying to reshape the American university since the federal government began funding it in earnest in the mid-20th century. But now the Trump administration appears prepared to ...

Historians rated the US presidents on leadership qualities. The survey did not include Joe Biden since he was still in office ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Students at Galva Junior-Senior High School met virtually with Ulysses Grant Dietz, a great-great-grandson of the 18th U.S.

As the purpose and meaning of the 14th Amendment are once again debated, it’s well worth learning more about one of its primary authors: George S. Boutwell.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...