Civil War - AAIHS

The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander

Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half

The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black