Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks 160 years since that bureau's creation, which makes this a great time to recognize its legacy, its unfulfilled ...

This collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 7 rolls of microfilm described in NARA publication M742. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Selected ...

Section 14 thus explicitly guaranteed that “all the citizens,” black and white, would have “the constitutional right to bear arms.” The Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was considered at the same time ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The volumes reproduced in this ...

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 ...

After more than two and half centuries of slavery, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment, Black people in America were no longer bound by the violent constraints of ...