This year marks 160 years since that bureau's creation, which makes this a great time to recognize its legacy, its unfulfilled promises, and what we can learn from it all. Although this agency was ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Freedmen's Bureau was established by the government in 1865 to provide assistance to free men and women once slavery ended. Many of the remaining documents from that ...

The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 35 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M803. These digital surrogates reproduced the 23 volumes and the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As the Civil War drew to a close, ...

People can explore the history and legacy of The Freedmen’s Bureau and its director, Union Gen. Oliver O. Howard, during a Civil War program at noon Nov. 13 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, ...

A granite historic marker, approved by the Kingstree Architectural Review Board, commemorating the 1867 Freedmen’s Bureau Transportation Request to transport 435 Freed men, women and children from ...

The Journal of Negro Education (JNE), a refereed scholarly periodical, was founded at Howard University in 1932 to fill the need for a scholarly journal that would identify and define the problems ...

For more than 100 years, the history and heritage of millions of former slaves sat in a dusty warehouse of federal archives. Their names and the dates that marked their lives were recorded on ...

WYTHEVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - In 1867, the Freedmen’s Bureau opened a school in Wytheville, the only educational institution available to African American students from Bland, Carroll, Grayson, and Wythe ...