Help Tell Stories of African American Valor
Throughout the first 100 years of our nation’s history, more than 200,000 African Americans fought to establish a more perfect union on the...
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African Americans at Antietam
To the citizens of Sharpsburg and Washington County, Maryland, slavery was not a foreign concept. In fact, these people witnessed firsthand the...
Contraband: African Americans
Curator of the African American Civil War Museum Hari Jones discusses the term "contraband," its origin, and its meaning during the Civil War era.
African Americans and the Revolution
Peter Kiteridge was one of approximately 5,000 free blacks and slaves who served in the American army during the Revolution.
African American Service during the Revolution
African Americans were not invisible during the American Revolution — learn more about their service.
African Americans in America's Wars
The American Civil War is often conceptualized as a conflict between white northerners and white southerners, during which black slaves and free...
African Americans and the War for Independence
This article details the actions of African Americans during the American Revolutionary War.
African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans were freemen, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, sailors, laborers, and slaveowners during the Civil War. As a historian, I must be...
African Americans in the Armed Forces Timeline
This timeline details the actions of African Americans in the armed forces from the Revolutionary War until the end of the Civil War.
African Americans and the Early War Effort
Historian and curator of the African American Civil War Museum Hari Jones discusses the ways in which blacks aided the Union war effort prior to the...
Boston African American National Historic Site
Boston, Massachusetts | This historic site comprises historic buildings, which document the black community in Boston before the Civil War
African American Civil War Memorial and Museum
Washington, DC | This national monument is the "first" national memorial to the 209,145 African-American soldiers and their 7, 000 white officers who...