The cemetery housing the twelve Civil War heroes and their families was adopted by Vietnam veterans, who ensure the upkeep of ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

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 ...

Descendants of the Black Civil War hero Andrew Jackson Smith have always known they had a white slaveholder in their ... his fellow re-enactors to play out scenes of fallen Black heroes over ...

We shed new light on historical black-white disparities in wealth and economic mobility by examining datasets of linked census records. First, we compare black and white men’s intra- and ...

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 ...

A small American flag marks the grave of a Civil ... white officers’ bodies had been identified and sent home to Ohio and Indiana for burial during the war. Kruse told the audience that the ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

37, No. 4, Fall 2023 Changes in the Distribution of Black and... Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...