Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

On Juneteenth, Raleigh pays tribute to the often-overlooked U.S. Colored Troops who played a pivotal role in the Union's ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who trained in Montgomery ...

Poised under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Fort Point is the only remaining Civil War-era fortification ... great uncle was a Black soldier, passing for white, and actually is buried ...

Despite fighting for the freedom of enslaved African Americans in the South together, Black veterans who fought in the Civil War were often still separated from their White counterparts after death.