Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

She came across a news story about a Dutch researcher hoping to connect with family members of a number of Indigenous soldiers who helped liberate her country. Patterson's name was among them ...