This year marks 160 years since that bureau's creation, which makes this a great time to recognize its legacy, its unfulfilled promises, and what we can learn from it all. Although this agency was ...

The world’s largest digitized and searchable collection of Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman’s Bank records is now available on Ancestry.com, providing free online access to information that can help the ...

Last year’s social uprising encouraged conversations about this country’s history of racism, systemic and systematic oppression of Black people in America with many now wanting to know more about ...

Tammy Ozier knows the story of how one of her ancestors risked his life to rescue his two sisters from enslavement. She just hopes the tale is true. As the family legend has it, Ozier’s ancestor, ...

Ancestry.com recently announced that it now has on its website the largest digitized and searchable collection of the Freedmen’s Bureau records. More than 3.5 ...

Today, Ancestry ® spotlights an important, yet often overlooked, part of American history by unveiling the world’s largest digitized and searchable collection of Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman’s Bank ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Freedmen's Bureau was established by the government in 1865 to provide assistance to free men and women once slavery ended. Many of the remaining documents from that ...

M.M.A.S. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2009. TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABSTRACT; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION; Birth of a "Peculiar Institution"; The Early Debate: A Snapshot of ...

LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Ancestry ® spotlights an important, yet often overlooked, part of American history by unveiling the world’s largest digitized and searchable ...

One originalist argument in favor of allowing the government to engage in "race-conscious" policies is that the post-Civil War Freedmen's Bureau was established to assist freedmen and refugees, the ...

“It’s going to change our perception about freed people and the lengths they went through in order to have control over their own lives,” said Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado The world’s largest digitized ...