Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia. “I wonder why nobody has noticed this outbreak until now?” ponders nurse ...

Gerry Lanosga does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Colorado State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The U.S. citizenship test – which immigrants must pass before becoming citizens of the United States – has this question: ...

Juneteenth remembers the moment in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation and were belatedly given freedom two months after the Civil War’s end. Southern California ...