The town cemetery had a map of everyone buried there ... “And he said, ‘His name is Hiram White. He’s a Civil War veteran. He’s Black. And he should have a marker.’ ...

It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly ...

But most Black Civil War soldiers never saw combat. Instead, they worked on U.S. fortifications, largely because officials believed Black men were better suited than white men for the arduous ...

Tennessee will soon debut an online map that brings together more than 1,000 points of interest that detail the role of African-Americans in the Civil War. A first for the state, the yearlong ...

Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history ... read the name of each man — Black and white — as he poured water ...

Jones delves into the everyday realities of what it meant to be Black in Boston during this time period, explaining how “[b]efore, during, and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and ...