As Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, prepared to celebrate 250 years of America's freedom, a museum remembered Black Union ...

When Congress declared that slaves who enlisted in the Union Army would be forever free, African Americans seized the opportunity and rushed to join. From: CIVIL WAR ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

Then he spoke words that history would make immortal: “Boys, the old flag never touched the ground.” ...

Honoring local Black soldiers who fought for freedom during the Civil War. The Berlin police chief donated a special GI-Joe figurine to be part of a display to highlight the contributions of those ...

The high position on the James River in Charles City County was the prime spot for a Union fort, so the U.S. Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A. Wild started building what would become ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Archaeologists were on site of a historical dig on Monday to locate the grave of a lost Civil War infantry. A company of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Calvary ...

In the early months of the Civil War, Republican Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts proved invaluable to President Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause. As the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs ...

Camp William Penn Museum in Montgomery County remembers Black Union soldiers' contributions to their emancipation from slavery.