A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

The American Women Quarters feature contributions from women in a variety of fields, including, but not limited to suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space and the ...

One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years.

American History TV visited the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond's exhibit on 400 years of African American history. Curator Karen Sherry focused on the period between 1619 and ...

From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick ...

According to MSNBC, pages and links with information on prominent minority veterans, including Black and Hispanic people and women, the Civil War, African American history, and women's history ...

Cashier was not the only woman to hide her identity to join one of the Civil War's belligerents. Historians estimate as few as 400 or as many as 1,000 women hid their gender to fight the war as men.