Writing black troops out of Civil War history paved way for Jim Crow
"If we don't tell our own story it will not be told."
Confederate flags, monuments, going down in wake of massacre
Politicians across the South are distancing themselves from the Confederate battle flag, but tributes to slaveocracy and its racist legacy persist around the country.
S. Carolina leaders call for removing Confederate flag from statehouse grounds
The Confederate flag features prominently in photos of the white youth arrested and charged with the murders.
Historians: History is more than an academic exercise
"History shapes and molds our perceptions of our past, present and future; it informs and builds a narrative: it provides lessons applicable to today's reality."
Today in history: The Civil War ends
The death toll is estimated at perhaps as many as 750,000, out of a total U.S. population of only 30 million at the time.
Today in history: President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
One of the best-known speeches in American history, it was delivered by Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule
In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.
Today in history: President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
One of the best-known speeches in American history, it was delivered by Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery
Today in labor history: Nat Turner begins anti-slavery revolt
On Aug. 21, 1831 Nat Turner begins a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Va., killing about 60 whites and freeing slaves along the way. It is considered the largest revolt of enslaved people in U.S. history.
