When Mary Tobin was a cadet at West Point from 1999 to 2003, she and her friends — many of them Black, many of them athletes — would often sit together in the front row at the prestigious military ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...