These national park trails were created by America’s first Black soldiers
Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...
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In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
65 years later, Greensboro sit-in pioneer Joseph McNeil reflects on historic civil rights protest
Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, recalls the momentous sit-in that ignited a nationwide civil rights movement as he ...
‘Richest Black man in 1900’ built and ran nation’s first Black-owned textile mill in NC
Built by former slaves, the mill was so famous that W.E.B. DuBois included pictures of the building in an exhibit at the ...
America Has Always Had a Love Affair with Its Service Rifles
A guide to three key iterations of the American service rifle, which include the 1903 Springfield, the M-1 Garand, and the ...
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André Cailloux died a hero in the Civil War
A cigar maker and a successful boxer in the 1800s, André Cailloux also was the first Black officer killed in action during ...