Foner adds: "The Emancipation Proclamation is issued as a military order. It's to help win the war." The painting above ...

In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and ...

Harriet Tubman, famed for her role in the Underground Railroad, is posthumously honored as a brigadier general by Maryland's ...

"The Sarah Sands was a steamer which caught fire while taking the 54th Regiment (now part of the Devon and Dorsets) to India during the Mutiny in 1857. According to the account by Rudyard Kipling ...

Hollywood icon Denzel Washington has teased retirement plans and revealed his upcoming slate of films including Black Panther ...

African American soldiers and white officers from across the North comprised the celebrated Massachusetts 54th Regiment. Like most African American units, the 54th was led by a white man ...

Despite the danger around him, Sgt. William H. Carney of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment survived, holding ...

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From parades to somber remembrance ceremonies, people across the region came together to honor those who served.

Boston honored veterans Saturday afternoon with parade through the city, starting at Boston Public Library in Copley Plaza ...