Fort Lee is now named for Pvt. Fitz Lee. The new namesake was a Buffalo Soldier who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions ...

Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

In writing this book Rees, author of numerous works on the common soldier during the War for Independence ... There follows a chapter summarizing the service of African Americans in the Continental ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

In up-close looks at war via videos, museum-goers can go back to the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, an intense scene of ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in ...

When the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, War Department planners quickly realized that the standing Army ... Black soldiers in combat. The first African American combat ...

Nineteen soldiers from an all-Black ... "And when it’s done because you are African American, that betrays everything the nation and the Army stand for." The outbreak of violence on the night ...

As millions of Americans protested at “No Kings” rallies across the country, onlookers gathered in Washington on the ...

The Army on Monday set aside the court-martial convictions from a century ago of 110 African American soldiers, including 19 who were executed, saying they were denied fair trials in a landmark ...