In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

The Vietnam jungle was so thick that it swallowed up the sunlight.  Yet there was the enemy, Charlie, the Viet Cong. It was ...

As we celebrate Veterans Day, let's take a moment to honor the sacrifices of these celebrities who chose to serve their ...

Newton, the Black Panthers gained national attention for their militancy, Maoism, uniforms ... of Reconciliation to address civil rights issues. During World War II, many African Americans ...

Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but ...

But about 1857, on a trip down the Mississippi ... Many of the salesmen were Civil War veterans. They wore their army uniforms to create sympathy for Grant, who had died just days after finishing ...

On an October afternoon in 1867, Burlington taverns stood nearly empty, while in retail shops, clerks idled and waited vainly ...

Locals and visitors concur that McRaven House is Vicksburg ranks as the most haunted locale in Mississippi. Built in 1797 ... Visitors have reported hearing barking dogs, seeing a Civil War soldier in ...

Florence Mars was born on New Year’s Day, 1923, in Neshoba County, Mississippi ... In 1867, two years after the end of the Civil War, about sixty-seven per cent of eligible Black Mississippians ...