If you’re in Washington, D.C., don’t miss the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum at 1925 Vermont Ave NW. It’s open all year, but Memorial Day weekend has special programming with ...

Milton said Memorial Day is special for African Americans because “we have always been willing to fight for our country even when we aren’t treated right.” “The first casualty of the American ...

Rees follows with a chapter on the African-American troops of each of the colonies, including some personal accounts or profiles of individual soldiers. He concludes with a chapter on the life of ...

There’s a painting on display right now in the Rhode Island Statehouse that tells an important tale of American history: It’s the story of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment — a military regiment composed ...

Though Troiani is currently engaged in works detailing the Revolution, in the past, he has produced rich studies of soldiers and scenes of the French & Indian War, American Civil War, War of 1812 ...

Rob Morrison has visited all 97 communities named Concord in the United States. There are 13 in Texas, four in Virginia and two in Kansas. Concord, South Dakota, has a paint store, a cemetery and ...

And when the Revolutionary War broke out a few decades later, he became one of the area’s Black soldiers fighting for the American cause. The scant records of the time indicate he may have fought at ...

The enslaved men were granted their freedom immediately upon their enlistment, the first and only time such an offer had been made by a state government during the Revolutionary War. The First Rhode ...

Museum of the American Revolution at 3rd and Chestnut streets in Old City, ... The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier” and “Liberty: Don Troiani’s Paintings of the Revolutionary War”. ...

A parcel of land on an existing Revolutionary War battlefield in Eutawville is being developed into a park to be named after a Revolutionary War soldier and freed African American slave Jim Capers ...

Although the African American Patriots tour is only offered in February, the Freedom Trail has a myriad of other tours available throughout the year. The foundation’s traditional Walk Into History ...

It blends the life of Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) – a nobleman, military engineer, revolutionary and humanist – with contemporary debates about identity, reconciliation and memory.