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Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...
Brennan will speak about at least two of the soldiers, including Cpl ... be members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, from New York and Rhode Island. "We're going to have members ...
For two days in June, a field adjacent to the Delaware County Historical Association will be transformed into the rugged ...
Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the ...
Dennard Dayle’s satirical new book, “How to Dodge a Cannonball,” follows a white flag-bearer pretending to be a Black soldier ...
The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.
On the 250th anniversary of Bunker Hill, it’s worth revisiting the horrors and anxieties of the conflict that birthed America ...
“They all had standard, Union buttons, plus shoulder buttons most Civil War uniforms didn’t have. One soldier wore a canvas ... perhaps, from New England. It also showed most were 23 or ...
Syracuse's own Juneteenth celebrations date back decades, with local Black communities calling it "our Fourth of July." ...
We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...