A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union ... before the Civil War, there was initial resistance to recruiting them as soldiers ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum (CSPM) has a black exhibition featuring black figures, including Charles Banks, a ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

In the Civil War, the most notorious camp was near Andersonville, Ga., where an estimated 30 percent of the 32,000 captured Union soldiers died of starvation, exposure, or disease. What are the ...

The Justice Department’s second-in-command demanded that a judge dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

In the late '50s, civil rights leader the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth felt the Birmingham campaign needed a boost.

Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed by Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi groups. When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was ...

The U.S. Army is redirecting millions of dollars it has collected from the Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) pay for soldiers living in barracks away from food services, according to a report.