Colloquium speaker illuminates Black veteran experience during Civil War
While white generals are often at the center of Civil War archival research, Black Civil War veterans and their families remain largely overlooked. Furman University (S.C.) Assistant Professor of History Holly Pinheiro discussed his new book,
The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...
If passed, the bill would posthumously honor approximately 200,000 African American ... wars long before the Civil War, there was initial resistance to recruiting them as soldiers at the start ...
Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i Volcanoes National Parks.
Howard Lambert, the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation, has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to life.
The Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery is the second site in Minnesota to receive the designation following Pilgrim Baptist Church ...
A historical marker will be placed at Fort Des Moines this summer to honor the 1,000 thousand black soldiers ... War One. Researcher Keith King says they laid the foundation for the Civil ...
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After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally ComingOn July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
The regular, peacetime army was all-white, and the demands on the Union for more troops in the Civil War ... Black troops received the nickname “Buffalo Soldiers” from their Native American ...
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