More than 1,800 people who served in the U.S. Congress ... his opposition to the constitutional amendments that granted Black Americans full rights of citizenship. He served in Congress until ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working ... reflect the complex ...

Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming ... that African Americans first begin to get access to education is in schools created by the army during the Civil War. Black soldiers ...