Susie King Taylor landed in the history books by becoming the Army’s first Black nurse, and the first and only Black woman to detail her…
In the Nation’s Capital, the celebration of Emancipation Day is unique to the city but very significant. It marks the day in 1862 that President…
After the Civil War ended, the prison system in the former Confederate states was under pressure to figure out how to house convicts. Most of…
In Oxford, Ohio, at the Woodside Cemetery, a plain headstone had served as the grave marker for 30 black civil war soldiers for 99 years.…
