At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...

Many of the Confederate memorials in the spotlight today were built long after the Civil War had ended in 1865. In fact, many were built between the 1890s and 1950s, during the era of Jim Crow ...

Irvine's tombstone was restored in 2009 by a different ... "It was said during the American Civil War that there were more Confederate flags flying here than in Richmond, Virginia — and Richmond ...

According to Jared Frederick, a professor of history at Penn State Altoona, there are two other Civil War monuments in Blair County — one in the Fairview Cemetery and one in front of the Blair ...

Born into slavery, during the Civil War in May 1862 ... The runner-up, by Florence-based Brown Memorials, depicted Smalls the statesman atop on obelisk featuring likenesses of Smalls as a younger ...