The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

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Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Indeed, 12 military men in the American Revolution were drawing pensions in the Civil War, and the photos of six appeared in E.B. Hillard’s book “The Last Men of the Revolution” in 1864.

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

Some 179,000 Black men served in the Union Army during the Civil War and another 19,000 served in the Navy, according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Christopher Levett, who had sailed to Maine in 1623 in search of a site for ...

The Signal Corps was established during the Civil War and played a small but vital role in the Army during that conflict. But it wasn't until the last conflict of the 19th century that the Signal ...

He previously served as Special Adviser on the Middle East to Vice President Kamala Harris and as Iran Team Chief at the ...

For the anarchists, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War signifed the long-awaited realization of a worldwide revolution. In this regard, the Russian-Lithuanian-American-English anarchist and ...