In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Dr. Vincent Venturini has produced a courageous, well-written, well-documented and well-sourced book on the lifespan of Arabelle Daniel of Jackson.

A grant from the Illinois State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries — both kept by Adams and now available for online research on CARLI Digital ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Anne Frank, one of the most famous diarists during World War II, went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam on July 6, ...

T he enormous roundabout at Azadi Square was full of cars, yet still felt somehow deserted. Then it dawned on me: Humans—they ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.

Sometimes the love of your life is a world away. But, if the right things happen, you can find yourself in the same place at ...

Gould went on to write for the “Anglo African” newspaper and kept a journal while enlisted in the Navy for the remainder of the Civil War. The Union Army did not allow African-American soldiers until ...