Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.” Kate Clifford ...

A memorial cross has been unveiled at what was once an unmarked grave of the one of the youngest soldiers killed in combat ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

The Freedom Trail, a collection of historical sites, takes visitors along the journey of emancipation in the state. The New ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

On Juneteenth, Raleigh pays tribute to the often-overlooked U.S. Colored Troops who played a pivotal role in the Union's ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book [The Jewish Confederates], published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about ...

Inside a small, unassuming garage in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, powerful mementos and artifacts from the Civil War honor Black ...

American poetry and the Civil War. Several decades before the Civil War, the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz asserted, in his influential treatise On War, that “war is merely ...

William Scott, a Vermont soldier in the Civil War, ... Vermont Civil War, Lest We Forget. In 1914, the poem inspired a silent film of the same name, according to the website IMDb.

His Poem No Longer Memorized, Even The Plaque Is Gone. Generations of American schoolchildren were compelled to read and memorize a Civil War poem by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872) titled ...