Few presidential acts have had more impact upon the arc of history than the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on this day in 1863. ...
The defeat of Robert E. Lee at Antietam in September 1862 was a huge blow to Confederate morale.
Confederates badly needed a boost and they got it at Frederic...
To be African-American and born during slavery didn’t necessarily mean you were a slave. Lucy Craft Laney was born in 1854, but her father had purchased freed...