Mass. Governor John Andrew answered that call by forming one of the first Black regiments in the Civil War — and a dozen of ...
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Some 80 men of Company E of the 5th US Colored Cavalry were driving a herd of cattle from Camp Nelson, near Nicholasville, to Louisville to supply food for those ...
Did you know that just decades after the Civil War, a multi-racial political alliance won control of North Carolina? In the ...
A governor, generals and scores of veterans were on hand to see Harriet Tubman posthumously became a one-star, brigadier ...
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...
“Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War,” the latest contribution from Civil War and Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo, is filled with ...
"It's amazing that they were still there and we found them," said Tom Keating, coordinator for the Missing In America Project ...
June 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of ...