"In the days after the Civil War, being a Black Republican meant something vastly different than today," an excerpt from “The Grift” reads. The book opens by highlighting how both parties ...

Stop fooling around. Consider what you’re about to do. Act with resolve, not impulse. It’s the best way to work, the optimal ...

Award-winning author Jacqueline Jones pulls the receipts in her latest book, "No Right To An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era." Full length portrait of ...

Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds ... Disillusioned by the war, Northerners forgot about the Negroes, who were slipping back into servitude, and ...

Dean Calbreath, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former reporter with The San Diego Union-Tribune, ultimately focused on one man, featured in his new book ... war aimed at stopping Black ...

Now, Carney will get his own comic book, the latest in ... Several other Black soldiers were awarded the medal during or soon after the Civil War for valor, while Carney’s came in 1900.

The cemetery housing the twelve Civil War heroes and their families was adopted by Vietnam veterans, who ensure the upkeep of ...

Her book on the 1925 Scopes ... with the assistance of several Black Republicans in Georgia, Longstreet was appointed U.S. railroad commissioner. By now, though, Civil War veterans, Federal ...

Because Pottstown had a smaller, more stable Black population — before World War II ... concludes his book by noting that learning about the history of Pottstown’s civil Rights activism ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with “April 1865: The Month ...

But a new book by Carnegie Mellon University ... “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” (Oxford University Press) tells the story of the ...