As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the ... His 1845 “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” — raw, unsparing — spread like flame. Readers devoured its ...

This weekend, the echoes of muskets and the stirring words of Lincoln will ring out in Bellefonte as the borough hosts its ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen troops. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War ... Cemetery abolitionist Frederick Douglass said he feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus: enslavement.

In the nature of things a life of Frederick Douglass ... for on It ex- Douglass's part in the civil war-his instrumentality in the enlisting of negro troops and the conduct of the Government ...

Photo: Getty Images Boston’s Museum of African American History is among the latest art and humanities institutions that have been hit by funding cuts from the Trump administration, per CNN. For six ...

The Tri-Cities Civil War Round Table will host a presentation on the Civil War and Reconstruction by James P. Byrd, Ph.D., on Monday, June 9, at 7 p.m. in Room 219 of the Toy F. Reid Eastman Employee ...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music was filled to repletion last evening by an audience of ladies and gentlemen, assembled to hear the colored orator, FREDERICK DOUGLASS ... time this war was ended ...

James P. Byrd, professor of American religious history at Vanderbilt University, will be the guest speaker at the Cumberland ...