Robert Gould Shaw

Questions linger about the assault on Fort Wagner, which took place on this day in 1863.

Newly added to Netflix, the Civil War movie reminds the nation that black Americans fought for their own emancipation.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Charles Ives and the Civil War.

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.

Why abolitionist Lydia Maria Child raged at President Lincoln’s political calculations.

The most influential preacher in the country, Beecher aggressively agitated for the Union to extend complete forgiveness to Confederates.

The long history behind the Army's Jim Crow forts.

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.